January’s consumer price index exceeded expectations, leading to diminished hopes for multiple Federal Reserve rate cuts.

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 ...

Since the fed funds rate range is 4.25% to 4.50% right now, the EFFR will fall between those two numbers. The real fed funds rate is 4.33% today. What is the difference between the fed funds rate ...

Based on persistent pricing pressures at both the consumer and producer levels, we are adjusting our outlook for Federal Reserve activity in 2025. We now look for two rate cuts in the second half of ...

The Fed’s short-term rates matter, but the main action now is in the 10-year Treasury market, which influences mortgages, ...

The Federal Reserve in last week’s policy meeting left interest rates unchanged at a 4.25%-4.50% range, and a repeat ...

The Federal Reserve hit the pause button on recent interest rate cuts, entering a new wait-and-see phase as it tries to determine whether and how much more to lower rates from a recent two-decade high ...

You may not think much about the federal funds rate day to day, but this key number impacts many areas of your financial life and the economy as a whole. The Federal Reserve — the country’s ...

If you look at the biggest industry forecasts, analysts predict that mortgage rates will either hold steady or drop slightly ...

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday kept interest rates unchanged, bypassing a trend of dropping cuts and bucking President ...

A rate pause means there's still time to score a high annual percentage yield, or APY, on a CD. Banks tend to follow the Fed's lead when setting CD rates, so we're likely to see APYs hold steady for ...

Most people pay little attention to the Federal Reserve and monetary policy. But they have an outsized impact on your bank accounts.