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While folks financing a house or carrying loads of credit-card debt are mourning the end of the lowest interest rates in 46 years, savers who have been stressing over paltry yields on cash investments are partying in response to the Fed's quarter-point interest-rate hike last month. The federal-funds rate now stands at 1.25%, but the really good news for yield-hungry investors is that the bump may be just the beginning of a slow and steady climb that could leave us at 2% by the end of the year...
...average yield for money-market funds--a popular parking place for rainy-day reserves--sat at 0.51% two months ago. The rate was 0.68% last week, a difference that would give investors an extra $3.4 billion over the course of a year. Money-market funds tend to yield the federal-funds rate minus expenses (average: 0.50%), which could mean a 1.50% average yield by the end of the year. But that still falls far short of inflation--now at 3%--and the 6% money funds yielded...
...more to invest, it's worth your while to shop for a higher yield. Bankrate.com lists rates on money-market accounts, similar to money-market funds but FDIC insured. These bank-based accounts have historically lagged behind money funds' yield by about 1 percentage point, according to money tracker iMoneyNet. But banks have become aggressive and now offer equivalent yields--at times even better ones. Bankrate.com shows some good deals, such as one from ING Direct currently yielding 2.10% annually and one at VirtualBank that pays 2.15%. David Yeske, a certified financial planner in San Francisco, points out that high...
...even on the question of dealing with al-Qaeda - which, being an extremely sectarian Sunni movement remains, after all, a natural enemy of the Shiite regime in Tehran even if they share a common enemy in the U.S. - it's far from clear that the path of engagement can yield the desired result in terms of Iran's nuclear program. Analysts fear that Tehran may now be racing headlong to build a nuclear weapon despite international pressure to desist, possibly sparking a preemptive military response from Israel, which views any challenge to its presumed nuclear monopoly in the region...
Shadow Divers becomes an underwater detective story. The divers go to excruciating lengths to recover any artifact--a shoe, a plaque, a table knife with a name scratched in it--that might yield the secret of the sub's demise. It's also a midlife-crisis fable about a bunch of ordinary Joes in their 30s and 40s looking for something other than their crumbling marriages and pedestrian day jobs to give their lives meaning and focus. They just happen to find it at the bottom of the ocean...