Ever wonder how much your money really earns just by sitting in the bank? That’s where annual percentage yield (APY) comes in. APY shows how much interest your money can earn in a year — and the ...

The ABCs of successful money management include an understanding of APY, or annual percentage yield, an acronym you’ll see advertised by banks on their savings products. Long story short: The higher ...

Annual percentage yield (APY) is the rate of return you earn over a year on deposit accounts. APY can be fixed or variable; this means rates may stay the same for a set time or fluctuate. The APY on a ...

Toni Husbands was a staff writer with CNET Money. She began writing about personal finance to document her experience paying off $107,000 of debt, which is detailed in her book "The Great Debt Dump." ...

When you invest in a product, you expect a return above and beyond what you paid for that product. This is APY. What is APY? It stands for annual percentage yield, and it represents the rate of return ...