Word: deposited
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Compounding the risk is the fact that many refugees from 3% CDs may have - bought their funds on the false assumption that these higher-yielding investments are also covered by federal deposit insurance. "Small bank savers may think that since banks are selling them, they're as safe as CDs," says John Haslem, a University of Maryland finance professor. They...
With rates on certificates of deposit dropping to their lowest levels ever and stocks at near record highs, IPOs look irresistible. They tend to outperform the market, at least in the beginning. The payback on this year's IPOs has hovered around 30%, compared with 5.3% for the Standard & Poor's index of 500 stocks. IPOs also give investors an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of what might be the next Apple Computer or Microsoft. But for every Microsoft, there are five flops, like MathSoft. And that's what makes market watchers nervous...
...work at least six months, twice the level of the 1970s. Even low interest rates have a downside: they not only hurt retirees and others living on investment income, but they also encourage millions of Americans to shift out of federally insured bank accounts and certificates of deposit into potentially more lucrative -- and certainly more volatile -- equities and mutual funds. The long predicted -- and long postponed -- stock market correction could hit personal savings hard...
...bank of 185 prepared for the survey. The tasks simulated real-life situations, calling upon basic reading and math competence and the ability to interpret charts, graphs and timetables, and were assigned degrees of difficulty on a scale of 0 to 500. Thus totaling the sums on a bank-deposit slip rated a 191; calculating the costs, including handling and shipping, of a catalog order garnered...
With their loan portfolios under fire, banks are in danger of losing their depositors as well. Americans have withdrawn more than $500 billion from low- yielding bank accounts over the past three years in favor of higher-paying investments like mutual funds. Even the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's $100,000 guarantee is no longer exclusively available to banks and S&Ls. Brokerage firms like Prudential Securities now offer "insured income accounts" with checking privileges and government insurance...