Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. The federal funds rate is one of the Federal Reserve’s key tools for guiding U.S. monetary policy. It impacts everything from the ...

Traders in the federal-funds futures market are expecting the Federal Reserve will hold its benchmark interest rate steady until June, when they anticipate a potential rate cut. Fed-funds futures ...

Rewinding further, the 30-year average notched a high 7.37% last spring, so today's rates are significantly improved vs. 10 ...

Starting in September, the FOMC lowered the federal funds rate three times in late 2024, ending the year with a target range of 4.25% to 4.50%. That flurry of activity, however, was preceded by 14 ...

Wondering what’s in store for interest rates? Rate cuts are on pause for now, but we think that’s only temporary. We expect a further 2 percentage points in cuts to the federal-funds rate by ...

The federal funds rate and mortgage rates are both ... might not go down – they could even go up." History supports what Bramlett says. The chart below shows the past 20 Fed rate changes ...

In their latest quarterly update to their Summary of Economic Projections, Fed officials’ median estimate for the federal-funds rate target ... The dot plot charts the individual projections ...

The Fed also slashed the federal funds rate to a historic low of almost 0% and pumped ... The three cutting cycles in the above chart were triggered by significant economic shocks: the bursting ...