That way, if rates rise dramatically, you can get out of your CD and re-lock at a higher.

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Ward and Ben Gibbard, and ultimately charted higher than any previous Rilo Kiley CD.

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Average dividend payments for companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Index (DJIA) are at least 100% higher than average one-year CD rates.

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One excellent way to mitigate these risks while still buying longer term (and thus higher paying) CDs is to assemble a CD ladder.

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In current economic times when an investor is lucky to get a 1.25% return on a one year CD, many equity investors are turning toward dividend paying stocks and other higher yielding instruments.

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For instance, you can put a smaller amount in a six-month CD, which will have a low interest rate, and larger amounts in higher-yielding nine-month and one-year CDs.

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Higher capacity disks are certain, but it must have a good price-competitive position against CD-based products in order to produce a badly needed jolt in sales.

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It doesn't have the instantaneous delivery aspect of the Internet but you will get much higher resolution and better overall quality since you can store several hundred megabytes of video on a CD.

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