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.

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Beth Hammack said on Wednesday that high levels of uncertainty in the U.S.

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 ...

We are in a different economic environment than the one the Federal Reserve thought we’d be in less than a year ago. Back in ...

The federal-funds rate had been near zero during the pandemic ... Even with recent cuts, interest rates are still high relative to recent history. This is the case compared not only with the ...