The federal funds rate hovered around record highs between 1980 and 1981 at almost 20%, while inflation was near 14.5% and unemployment was more than 7.5%. The lowest fed funds rate was a target ...

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the first time in four years with an aggressive move that lowers its benchmark ...

But as the economy boomed coming out of the pandemic, prices started to get out of control and inflation hit a four-decade high. As a result, the Fed aggressively raised the fed funds rate to a ...

The FOMC led by chair Jerome Powell will commence its 2-day monetary policy meeting from September 17, with outcomes to be ...

See Interest Rates Over the Last 100 Years. Find out how history affects today's rates and what it means for you.

Wondering what’s in store for interest rates ... positive news on inflation as well as the worrying labor market data, market expectations (according to federal-funds futures) have greatly ...

“All participants supported maintaining the target range for the federal funds rate at 5¼ to 5½ percent, although several observed that the recent progress on inflation and increases in the ...

To combat rising prices, the fed funds rate was raised 11 times between March 2022 and July 2023. The 12-month inflation rate is sitting at 2.5%, the lowest it's been since February 2021 ...

The Fed's fight against inflation, which involved raising short ... to be gunning it when it comes to cutting the federal funds rate. It could be a slower roll than many consumers would like ...

Its primary tool for slowing inflation is the federal funds rate, which is the interest rate banks charge each other to borrow money overnight. Increasing this rate slows economic growth.

Investors need to understand not only the backward-looking data, such as CPI and other metrics, but also forward-looking ...