Click here for more on Marketable and Non-marketable securities. Investors purchase them for less than their face values and let them build up to full face value at maturity. Series EE bonds can be purchased at banks or through payroll deduction plans. Series HH bonds are savings bonds that are sold at their face values. They pay semi-annual interest.
Maturities range from ten to twenty years.
Click here for more on Marketable and Non-marketable securities. The money market is an investment area where investors can buy short-term debt securities. Money market investments are the short-term debts of governments, banks, financial institutions and corporations. They mature in anywhere from one day to one year. Larger securities broker-dealer firms and large commercial banks usually handle money market securities.