With the Federal Reserve resuming its interest-rate cuts in recent months, the days of getting upwards of 5% yield in money-market funds and high-yield savings accounts in 2023 and 2024 are a distant ...

High yield munis are project-backed, not government-guaranteed. Healthcare, education, and housing drive this market. Read ...

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It may be hard to believe, but it wasn't that long ago that there wasn't much difference between the interest rates savers could secure with a traditional savings account and those they'd get with a ...

The Federal Reserve didn't cut interest rates at its latest meeting, thanks in part to a weakening job market. As such, it gives savers more time to capitalize on higher rates. When looking for ...

Once known as junk bonds, the high-yield bond market has gotten a lot safer. This market is home to debt issued by borrowers with lower relative credit quality and a higher relative risk of default, ...

Getting the best rate as a saver became a little more difficult after the Federal Reserve started cutting its benchmark rate toward the end of 2024. Fed officials lowered the federal-funds rate a ...

Dividend stocks have more than doubled the annualized return of non-payers since 1973. Although dividend yield and risk tend to go hand-in-hand, select ultra-high-yield stocks are true gems for income ...