From: beliavsky@aol.com
Newsgroups: misc.invest.financial-plan
Subject: Re: CD's---3 mo. vs 6 mo. vs 1 year?
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:54:46 CST
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Lee Carkenord wrote:

>I know that the common offered advice is to buy short term CD's when
>rates are rising.

It is common advice, but I would not give it much weight. You are
usually not rewarded in the financial markets for acting on public
information. The 1-year CD should have the effect of rising short-term
rates priced in. I suggest that you match the CD maturity to your
investment time horizon.