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Bankrate Incorporated, based in North Palm Beach, Florida, aggregates rate information, surveying 4,800 financial institutions across the United States. The firm's Bankrate.com (SM) website provides consumers with free rate information on mortgages, credit cards, automobile loans, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, checking accounts, ATM transactions, home equity loans, and hundreds of other financial products. Bankrate also publishes original content on financial planning and management. Articles are geared to general consumers. Bankrate.com includes mortgage analysis, rate calculator, and other tools. Bankrate.com information is distributed to AOL, Yahoo!, MarketWatch, and 70 other partner websites. Hundreds of print publications also employ Bankrate data. The company's 'The Bankrate Personal Finance Minute' program runs on XM Satellite Radio. Bankrate went public in 1999. It is traded on NASDAQ under the RATE symbol. The company has won recognition from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, 'Entrepreneur,' and 'Forbes.'
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