Chart History Widget Fed Interest Rate Decision is made eight times a year during the vote among the members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). The US Federal Reserve determines short-term interest rates, which it will charge on credit and loans to commercial banks. ...
The benchmark interest rate in the United States was last recorded at 4.50 percent. This page provides the latest reported value for - United States Fed Funds Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term predi
The line chart shows the relationship between the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield and 30-year fixed mortgage rates from November 2022 through November 2024. Over the past two years, the two rates have moved roughly in parallel, and the spread between them has averaged approximately 3%. The recen...
As you can see in the blue chart, CME started predicting rate cuts for the second half of 2022, shortly after the Fed started hiking rates, LOL. I remember that. We had these comments here about the impending rate cuts in 2022, every time the Fed hiked...
Take a look at the chart below, which shows the total returns (price plus dividends) of the different market sectors in the 12-month period following the first rate cut of the cycle. Note that green/red shading doesn't signify positive/negative performance, but instead whether the sector out...
Graphic: Unexpected jump in inflation https://www.reuters.com/graphics/BRITAIN-ECONOMY/INFLATION/lgpdkjjlovo/chart.png Graphic: Traders bet on rate hike as fears of bank crisis ease https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-RATES/FEDWATCH/xmpjkbnxmvr/chart.png Graphic: Majority of Americans op...
Chart of the day Military spending around the world rose almost 7 per cent to a record $2.4tn last year, the steepest annual increase in 15 years, according to research from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, a think-tank. Among the biggest national increases was a 24 per...
In early November, Powell sounded the alarm about an excessive tightening of financial conditions. In the six weeks leading up to the penultimate meeting of 2023, the US government’s cost of borrowing for 10 years hadsoaredby about 50bp to 4.88 per cent. The rate of interest on a 30-yea...
In 10 of those 11 instances—90.9%—stocks finished the year even higher (see the chart). Stocks gained 21.4% on average during those 10 calendar years (see the chart), versus just 7.2% on average for all other years since 1950.
Bars pattern analysis, which extracts the stock’s sharp trending move from late June to early July and overlays it from the ascending triangle’s top trendline, forecasts a bullish target of around $510. Investors should monitor key support levels on Tesla's chart near $360, $300, and $...