Markets, Rates & Money Guides

This is the hub for the Fintrev pages that sit outside prop firms, brokers and crypto: markets, rates, banking and money basics, 1,964 pages in all. The row of sections at the top shows how many pages each one holds, from the 1,375 entries in the Wiki down to the 3 calculators. Below that you will find the newest market recap, a strip of savings and CD rate tables, our picks, and recent explainers on stocks, bonds, metals and funds. Most of these pages are signed by the Markets & Investing Desk. Banking and rate pages come from the Personal Finance Desk.

How the sections are organized

The section counts tell you what kind of page you will land on. Articles (343) are explainers, such as how Treasury bills, notes and bonds differ or how an ETF compares with an index fund. Market Today (24) and Market News (18) hold recaps of a single trading session. Each recap carries its own date, so read it as a record of that session, not as a forecast. Quotes (29) and Companies (23) cover individual stocks and the firms behind them. People & History (48) covers figures and events that shaped markets. The Wiki works as a dictionary, with short definitions you can look up when a term in an article is unclear. If you are starting out, the beginner guide to investing and the piece on what moves stock prices are sensible first reads. The pages on bond yields or value at risk assume more background.

Where the rates and rankings come from

The rate tiles link to tables in Data & Rates, a section of 30 pages that includes high-yield savings and CD rates by term. Behind them sit the 39 bank rate sheets we track. A headline rate is only a starting point. Check the minimum deposit, whether the rate is promotional and whether the account is insured, then confirm the figure on the bank’s own site. The Rankings section holds 47 lists. Banks get no numeric score, so bank lists are ordered by the criterion named in the title, such as the rate. Brand facts come from the brand’s own pages and are kept only when an exact quote matches the captured text. Bank lookups use registers such as FDIC BankFind Suite. The full process is in our methodology. We have no paid partnerships or affiliate links, and no brand can pay for a position.

Who writes this and how it is checked

The Markets & Investing Desk signs 1,799 pages, covering investing guides, the dictionary, companies, people, economics and market data. Text is drafted with help from AI language models working from our recorded data. Automated checks then compare it with the record, and text with unsupported claims is rejected and rewritten. Every article shows the team that signs it, the date it was published and the date its text last changed. Pages that rely on outside material list them under “Sources cited on this page”. Nothing here is financial advice. Stocks, bonds, metals and funds can all lose value, and you can get back less than you put in.