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Stop fee madness
June
Stop fee madness
Pay your bills online Schedule credit-card and other payments in advance of the due date to avoid late fees and punitive rate hikes. Bonus: After the initial setup, you'll need only a few minutes a month to pay your bills.

Forgo the interest If your interest-bearing checking account dips below the minimum (average: $3,300), you'll be hit with a monthly service fee ($12 is typical) - all to earn just 0.32 percent. Fuhgeddaboutit. Instead, open a noninterest account (typically fee-less).

Get protection Sign up for overdraft protection and you'll never pay a bounced-check fee again.

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Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. All times are ET. Disclaimer. Morningstar: © 2018 Morningstar, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc. 2018. All rights reserved. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. and its licensors. All rights reserved. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2018 and/or its affiliates.