Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Whatever your personal views, we can all agree that it’s been a year. For Alphaville, 2025 involved strawberry ...

The Federal Reserve has been consistently lowering interest rates over the last year, making a certificate of deposit (CD) account a less appealing prospect than it was in 2023 and 2024 when interest ...

Savers can still find CDs with maturities from six months to five years offering 4.00% APY or higher Written By Written by Staff Senior Editor, Buy Side Miranda Marquit is a staff senior personal ...

The very first automotive compact disc player — the Pioneer CDX-1 — launched in 1984, but it wasn't until a few years later that you could purchase a new car with a factory-equipped unit. At the time, ...

Who would’ve thought that in 2025, there would still be new vehicles being sold with CD players? Well, we checked, and our research shows that there are just four of them left. We get that if you’re a ...

Guetta scores his record-breaking 17th No. 1. Max adds her second, while Alphaville extends its chart-topping legacy to more than 40 years. By Gary Trust David Guetta, Alphaville and Ava Max’s update ...

Much like Guetta’s huge 2022 hit “I'm Good (Blue)” with Bebe Rexha, which now has over 3 billion streams, the story of “Forever Young” started on TikTok. The track has garnered over 3 million TikTok ...

The Financial Times launched Alphaville in 2006 as a “daily news and commentary service giving financial market professionals the information they need, when they need it.” Finance blogging has ...

Alphaville (Bernhard Lloyd, Marian Gold, Frank Mertens) in 1984. A bright orange jumpsuit. Feathered hair. Standing up while playing a piano. Pixelated video quality. A political message set to some ...

We independently evaluate all of our recommendations. If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Sabrina Karl has over two decades of experience writing about savings, CDs, and ...

When it comes to media, streaming is unquestionably the standard these days and has been for quite some time. Nevertheless, some folks still prefer to have a hard copy, and yes, that includes CDs. As ...