The Bureau of the Public Debt yesterday announced earnings rates for Series I Savings Bonds, issued from May 2010 through October 2010. I-Bond Earnings Rate of 1.74% includes Fixed Rate of 0.20% Unfortunately for savers, this yield is much less than the 3.36% that I-bonds have been earning since November 2009. Earnings rates for I-bonds [...]
I-Bonds
I Bonds Turn Positive
Tired of earning ZERO percent on your Series I Savings Bonds? Well then, there’s good news for all of us savers. TreasuryDirect just announced that Savings Bonds yields have now turned positive. No.. I’m not kidding. I Bond Earnings Rate 3.36%, Fixed Rate 0.30% The earnings rate for Series I Savings Bonds is a combination [...]
May 2009 I-Bond Rates
Some pretty poor news about the new I-Bond rates for May, 2009. The combined interest rate return from now through October is zero percent! According to TreasuryDirect: I Bond Earnings Rate 0.00%, Fixed Rate 0.10% The earnings rate for Series I Savings Bonds is a combination of a fixed rate, which applies for the life [...]
November I-Bond Rates
The Treasury Department raised the fixed rate on their Series I Savings Bond from May 2008′s unprecedented ZERO percent fixed rate to a more enticing rate of 0.70%. Combined with the new inflation rate of 4.92%, November 2008′s I Bond total earnings rate is now 5.64%. According to TreasuryDirect: The earnings rate for Series I [...]
Bonds And Interest Rates
The Vanguard Group has posted a interesting article in their Insights section on something of concern to bond market investors – the inverse relationship between bond prices and interest rates. As excerpted from Bonds and rates: The reality behind the headlines: Moves in interest rates are notoriously hard to predict, but that hasn’t stopped many [...]