Forbes Advisor has compiled this history as a handy guide to the course of the federal funds rate and the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decisions since 1990. The federal funds rate is the ...

History, for example ... Before the Great Recession, the market-driven “effective” federal funds rate averaged 6.38 percent.

The Fed releases a report called the Summary of Economic Projections (SEP) four times per year, which tells the public where ...

The Federal Reserve sets the federal funds target rate, also known as the fed funds rate, which is the interest rate at which commercial banks lend to each other overnight. Below, CNBC Select ...

Powell’s Fed peaked interest rates at +5.25-5.50% from September 2023 for a full year. The last time the Fed funds rate was that high was for a couple months in early 2001, shortly after the ...

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The central bank penciled in two rate cuts for 2025, but President Trump’s sweeping agenda has injected “remarkably high” ...

Fed Chair Jerome Powell cites "high uncertainty" around the impact of Trump administration tariffs on key trading partners.

But history teaches that the stock market's returns ... when the Fed raised the fed-funds rate by 25 basis points (0.25%). After that rate cut on March 16, 2020, the Wilshire 5000 Total Market ...

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced that it will leave a key interest rate unchanged for the second consecutive ...