Average CD Rates Dropped .10 Percentage Points Since January

NEW YORK, June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- RateWatch, a premier banking data and analytics service owned by TheStreet, Inc. (NASDAQ: TST) reported today  the average 2- and 5-year CD rates dipped incrementally as national averages generally remained unchanged at record-low levels. The average 5-year CD rate has dropped about 0.10 percentage points since the beginning of the year as it is now at 0.8%.

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The Federal Reserve on June 19 will release a policy statement and economic projections and Chairman Ben Bernanke will hold a press conference after those reports. "Economists and analysts are concentrated on when the central bank will start to scale back its $85 billion in monthly purchases of mortgage-backed securities and longer-term Treasuries," says Joe Deaux, TheStreet's Economist. "According to one analyst the movement in interest rates is more dependent on Fed language than on economic data."

NATIONAL AVERAGE RESULTS - $10K

TOP RATE ISSUERS - $10K
This is a list of issuers with top interest rates. The issuer's Financial Strength Rating is an independent, unbiased evaluation of quarterly regulatory statements. Institutions are assigned a letter grade of A-E with "A" representing the highest rating based on a review of many aspects of financial safety including capitalization, asset quality, profitability and liquidity. For more information, visit www.weissratings.com/help/what-our-ratings-mean.aspx.  Information is believed to be accurate, but not guaranteed.

Financial Strength Rating: A=Excellent, B=Good, C=Fair, D=Weak, E=Very Weak
Plus sign "+" = top of range, Minus sign "-" = bottom of range

Data is surveyed weekly with averages calculated each Monday afternoon from RateWatch's unbiased national interest rate survey of over 96,000 financial institution locations across the United States.

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