What the federal funds rate means to you “The bank problems are probably making a lot of people think twice,” said Diana Furchtgott-Roth, an economics professor at George Washington University and former…
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Federal Reserve expected to hike rates again. What that means for you
Rate hikes, one year later For its part, the Fed has already hiked its benchmark fund rate eight times over the last year to its current level of between 4.5%…
What a Federal Reserve quarter-point interest rate hike means for you
The Federal Reserve raised the target federal funds rate for the eighth time in a row on Wednesday, in its continued effort to tame persistent inflation. At its latest meeting, the…
Here’s what the Federal Reserve’s half-point rate hike means for you
The Federal Reserve raised its target federal funds rate by 0.5 percentage points at the end of its two-day meeting Wednesday in a continued effort to cool inflation. Although this marks…
What the Fed’s fourth 0.75 percentage point rate hikes means for you
The Federal Reserve raised the target federal funds rate by 0.75 percentage point for the fourth time in a row on Wednesday, marking an unprecedented pace of rate hikes. The U.S.…
AT&T’s dividend yield falls below Verizon’s. What that means for the stocks.
AT&T Inc. no longer seems the most unloved name in wireless, and that manifested in one milestone that occurred last week. While AT&T shares T, +1.92% rallied in the wake…
Stocks suffered their worst September since 2002. What that means for October.
It was a September investors will remember — and not in a good way. A Friday drop left the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average with their biggest monthly…
What another major rate hike by the Federal Reserve means to you
What the federal funds rate means to you The federal funds rate, which is set by the U.S. central bank, is the interest rate at which banks borrow and lend…
What a housing recession means for homeowners, buyers, sellers
The Good Brigade | Digitalvision | Getty Images Just months ago, the housing market remained in overdrive: surging home prices, historically low interest rates and unrelenting demand. However, data now…
what it means for Asia junk bond investors
Real estate and related industries account for more than a quarter of China’s economy, according to Moody’s estimates. CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images China’s real estate bonds were…