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A friend of mine keeps $60,000 in certificates of deposit (CDs). Not in one big CD -- it's broken up into 12 of them. Each one holds $5,000 and matures one month apart. His thinking is that if he ever ...
A CD ladder is a strategy in which you spread your savings across multiple CDs with different maturity dates and interest rates. CD ladders offer more flexibility than traditional CD investing, ...