Overview

Money market accounts and funds give you easy access to your money, but with a higher rate of return than traditional checking and savings accounts. For that reason, they are ideal places to keep money that you are saving for an emergency, money you plan to need in the short-term, or money that you are planning to invest at a later date.

You can open a money market accounts through banks, brokerage firms, and mutual fund companies.

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