Discover how potential Federal Reserve rate cuts and economic shifts influence investments, tariffs, and Treasury yields.

CD rates are a product of their economic times, and we're currently in a rosy period. At other times in history, CD rates ...

After hitting a peak of 7.04% in January 2025, mortgage rates have retreated, but the decline has been sluggish, as rates ...

Fed's signal it won't cut rates until June kept investors focused on Q2 in setting current-day stock prices. Changing ...

The chart below reflects all Fed rate cuts and ... 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 Index ...

CD rates tend to track the federal funds rate. When the fed rate goes down, CD rates decline, and vice versa. The Federal Reserve held the federal funds rate steady for nearly a year but made its ...

down a full percentage point from their September chart. Fed officials see the fed funds rate falling to 3.9% in 2025. That’s still far from the desired target rate of 2%. BofA economists assess ...

These are today's mortgage and refinance rates. Mortgage rates have been volatile over the last week as markets react to ...

But here's the good news: The FOMC estimates the federal funds rate will end this year somewhere ... on each of the occasions depicted in the chart: The dot-com internet bubble burst in the ...

The U.S. Federal Reserve has a dual mandate. First, it's tasked with keeping inflation under control, which means ensuring the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increases by around 2% per year.