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 federal funds rate is the interest rate that banks charge ... and market movements. The chart below shows the tool’s predictions through the end of 2026. (Note: The chart below is at the ...

The Fed’s dot plot is a chart that records each Fed official’s projection for the central bank’s key short-term interest rate ...

The Fed said it will maintain the federal funds rate at its current range of 4.25% to 4.5%, where it's been parked since the central bank last moved to lower short-term rates in December.

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 ...

The graph is released after every other Fed ... with a handful seeing the federal funds rate drop below the 3% level. What it means: Interest rates should get near the long-term projection of ...

The median forecast among Fed officials for where the benchmark federal-funds rate will be at the end of ... The data, published in a chart known as the “dot plot” in the bank’s Summary ...

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) sets the benchmark rate, which impacts the rates auto lenders set. When the federal funds rate fluctuates, so will the cost to finance a vehicle.

For the third consecutive meeting, the Federal Open Market Committee left the federal funds rate unchanged at a range of 4.25% to 4.5% following its two-day meeting. The committee closed out 2024 ...