This article has been updated to reflect the current new Series I bond rates for November, 2024 to May, 2025 period.The new I bond rate has been set at a composite 3.11% (down from 4.28% APR in the prior 6-month period). Due to a declining inflation rate, this current rate has dip...
The latest inflation-adjusted rate of 3.38% annualized was determined based on the increase in the CPI-U from 296.808 in September 2022 to 301.836 in March 2023, resulting in a six-month change of 1.69%. The Treasury’s formula to calculate an I bond’s overall composite rate f...
Series I bonds, a type of savings bond issued and backed by the U.S. government, provide a low-risk investment option while also offering protection against inflation. Latest Rate The Treasury updates therates for I bondstwice a year, on May 1 and November 1. These rates cons...
The Treasury adjusts I bond rates every May and November, and there aretwo partsto I bond yields: a variable and fixed portion. The variable rate moves every six months based oninflation, and the Treasury canchange the fixed rateevery six months, but that doesn't always happen. ...
November 2022 rates officially announced.May 2022 rate confirmed at 9.62%.11/1/2022 press release. The variable inflation-indexed rate for I bonds bought from November 2022 through April 2023 will indeed be 6.48% as predicted. Every single I bond will also earn this rate eventually for 6 mont...
The Bureau of the Fiscal Service announces the inflation rate twice a year in May and November based on changes in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) [1]. Combining an I bond's fixed rate and inflation rate creates its composite rate, or the interest rate an I ...
After theNovember 2023 fixed ratewas announced to be higher at 1.3%, I’ve gotten a few questions about redeeming “old” Savings I Bonds with lower fixed rates (some at 0%) and buying these “new” ones instead. During this current 6-month period, a lot of them are also earning less...
In this case, investors would have been better off waiting to purchase the new I bond in November 2023 to take advantage of the higher fixed rate. Historical Composite I Bonds Interest Rates for Newly Issued I Bonds Source:U.S. TreasuryDirect ...
But fast-forward to today, and inflation has cooled significantly, tamed by theFederal Reserve'saggressive 2022–2023 rate-hike campaign. As a result, virtually everyone who bought an I bond in the last 17 years—since May 2007—is currently earning a much lower rate. Current...
In addition to the fixed interest rate, the variable rate is announced twice a year in May and November and is determined by changes to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which is used to gauge inflation in the U.S. economy. The change in the inflation rate is applied to the bond every ...