Average rates for money market, checking accounts firm as rates for 12-mo. CDs up only fractionally. August 17, 2004: 5:05 PM EDT
Current Savings Rates
Type
Overall avgs
MMA
2.43%
$10K MMA
2.69%
6 month CD
3.15%
1 yr CD
3.69%
5 yr CD
4.17%
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Interest rates for savings products were flat the week ended Aug. 10, with 12-month CDs crawling to a 1.63 percent average from 1.62 percent the previous week.
Rates for 12-month CDs ranged from 0.35 percent on the low end to 3.05 percent for the week, according to Informa Research Services. A month earlier, the average rate stood at 1.56 percent.
Meanwhile, interest rates for money market and checking accounts refused to budge.
The average interest rate for money markets remained firm at 0.65 percent, showing no movement for over a month, with a range of 0.01 percent to 2.55 percent.
Checking accounts clung to their 0.31 percent average, unchanged from the previous week. Rates spanned from 0.01 percent to 3.01 percent for the week ended Aug. 10, and stood at 0.3 percent a month earlier.
Below are the rates for key savings products from the 10 largest banks. You can compare rates from more institutions with the rate-search tools above.
