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 ...

The FedWatch tool tracks the likelihood that the Fed will change the fed funds rate based on futures prices. President Donald Trump's tariff proposals have put the Fed in a difficult position ...

CD rates have been slowly decreasing since late 2024, and they’re expected to get lower as 2025 wears on. CD rates tend to follow shifts in the federal funds rate, gradually rising and falling ...

The Federal Reserve was expected to leave interest rates unchanged Wednesday as it continued to assess the impact of ...

Fed-funds futures on Tuesday morning showed traders anticipate the Federal Reserve may keep its benchmark interest rate steady at its next two policy meetings and then potentially reduce it in ...

The Federal Reserve stuck to its guns, keeping interest rates steady Wednesday as central bank policymakers analyze how ...

At the end of its Federal Open Market Committee session on May 7, 2025, the Fed announced holding the federal funds ... The History and Future of the Federal Reserve’s 2 Percent Target Rate ...

The Fed’s decision to keep rates unchanged still has far-reaching implications for almost all forms of borrowing as well as the returns on a savings account.