As we head into the second month of 2012 now is a good time to review your finances and stick to those New Year resolutions you made a month ago. These 10 tips can help you with your personal finances in 2012 and beyond. The Time to Save and Invest is Now! Don’t underestimate your ability to start [...]

It’s only been three weeks since the start of 2012, and already, some of you may be finding it tough to keep those financial resolutions. Luckily for you, Informa Research Services has a few tips to get you back on track. Automate it. Put your finances on cruise control by using services such as pre-scheduled transfers [...]

SFGI Direct, an online banking division of Summit Community Bank, is offering one of the best savings account rates currently available. Chances are you haven’t hears of SFGI Direct or Summit Community Bank but the bank is located in the Eastern Panhandle and South Central regions of West Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley and Northern regions [...]

A recent article in the New York Times suggests that economists are puzzled as to why the nation’s savings rate is dropping again after rising since the financial crisis and the “Great Recession”. After the recession the nation’s savings rate was over 5.00% but is now the rate is back down to 3.6% which is the [...]

Many baby-boomers are nearing retirement but can’t retire because frankly they don’t have enough money to retire. The old buy and hold strategy when investing in mutual funds or stocks hasn’t paid-off the past decade. The major stock indexes were down this year and the S&P 500 was in bear market territory (intra-day) just last week. [...]

The current national average savings account rate is at 0.20% but you can find savings account rates higher than the averages. Right now on our national savings rates list several banks including American Express Bank and Discover Bank are offering savings rates at 1.00% with a savings yield of 1.00%. That rate is more than 5 times [...]

American Express Bank has one of the leading savings account rates on our national savings rate table. Amex Bank is offering current savings rates at 1.00% with a yield of 1.00%. That rate is considerably higher than the national average savings rate of 0.208% as reported by MonitorBankRates.com. Amex bank is the banking division of the credit card [...]