Fed’s interest rate history of 1981-1990: Volcker fights the ‘Great Inflation’ with historic rate moves and aggressively ...

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 ...

Given President Donald Trump's evolving tariff policy, a great deal of uncertainty is swirling around future interest rates.

David Gregory is an editor with more than a decade of experience in the financial services industry. Before that, he worked as a child and family therapist until he made the decision to move ...

A declining federal funds rate has had a corresponding impact on many other interest rate offerings. As you can see from the chart below, there's a clear positive correlation (albeit imperfect ...

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 ...

This chart depicted the U.S. federal funds rate over the years, and overlays when the U.S. economy was in a recession. The chart portrayed a scary trend. The last few times that the Fed cut ...

Average CD Rates From 1980 to 2023 The graph below shows the average ... Rates on deposit accounts, like CDs, tend to follow the federal funds rate. As history has shown, when the Fed raises ...

The chart above from Societe Generale's Kit Juckes and Olivier Korber, tracking the ICE U.S. Dollar Index against the fed-funds rate ... If Fed cuts rates the dollar will fall? History shows ...

Even so, the federal funds rate remains ... have also tended to cut interest rates gradually, Bankrate’s analysis shows. To help consumers understand the historical significance of the Fed ...