As of earlier today, ING Direct, one of my choices among the best high-yield online savings accounts, has lowered the interest rates offered on its savings and checking accounts. The bank has lowered the yield on its savings account from 2.5% to 2.4% APY, while the rates on the two upper tiers of the checking account have decreased from 2.6% to 2.5% and from 2.8% to 2.7%.
While ING Direct doesn’t top the high-yield interest list, readers still consider this bank one of their favorites thanks to usually excellent customer service. Consumerism Commentary readers are continuing to provide referral links, which allow new customers to earn an immediate 10% return: if you do not currently have an ING Direct account and you have $250 to deposit initially, claim your $25 bonus by opening your ING Direct account using one of the links listed here, and I’ve refreshed the list today. When you use one of these links properly, the Consumerism Commentary reader who supplied the referral will also earn $10. Once you’ve opened your account with a bonus, you’ll receive fifty referral links of your own, twenty-five for the savings account and twenty-five for the checking account, allowing you to earn an additional $500.
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Either I am looking at a different ING website, or I am missing something here. ING lists their savings account at a variable 2.4% APY. http://home.ingdirect.com/products/products.asp?s=OrangeSavingsAccount
Prior to the change it was 2.5% APY.
David: That’s correct, the new rate is 2.4% APY.
Phew…in my reader I read 3.4% and I got excited for a second. :D
But this is a tad saddening…now my brick-n-mortar Citi savings account actually has a better rate. Who would have thought…
please contact me if you need more then 3 %.. i have a product with ing that guarantees 6,6 effective…however the money is in it for ten years and only 10 percent can be taken out every year…
schlempe@hotmail.com