APY, or Annual Percentage Yield, is an important term to understand if you want to maximize your money’s growth potential. It measures the interest earned on a financial product or account over one ...

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Yields for 5-year certificates of deposit are down 8 basis points over the past year to an average of 1.34%, according to the latest government data. But while these long-term fixed-rate yields are ...

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