As the 2024 election comes down to the wire, both candidates have a mixed economic record. Here’s a look at the good, bad, ...

Here is a visual representation of federal funds rate chart history, using data from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System: The Fed uses the fed funds rate as a tool to heat up or ...

History shows that Fed rate cuts often boost the stock market, but context matters—normalization cuts tend to drive gains, ...

The market currently expects the Fed to pause at its two remaining FOMC meetings of the year. Our Chart of the Day is ... be less need to raise the Fed funds rate." San Francisco Fed President ...

The chart below shows the ... been this far below the prevailing Fed funds rate (essentially anticipating aggressive rate cuts) except just before or during recessions. Given that the level ...

The Federal Reserve cut the interest rate by 50 basis points – and the market RAISED its rates by the same amount. The Fed ...

Over the past three years inflation has gone from “transitory” to “persistent” to, well, boring. Across the developed world ...

That’s mostly why Fed officials say they’re bringing down rates now. Why did the Fed start raising interest rates? In 2022 and 2023, Fed officials hoisted their key federal funds rate from ...

In a long-anticipated move, the Federal Reserve this week initiated a cut to the federal funds ... a Fed rate cut if the cuts were made during a recession. During both the 1990 and 2020 recessions ...

18, the Federal Reserve lowered the target range for the federal funds ... rate cuts have been followed by mixed results in the stock market-- with gains generally occurring when recessions ...