Besides death and taxes, we can count on the fact that everyone from Wall Street to Main Street pays close attention to the Fed and its effect on interest rates. Here's a look from inside the Fed into what's on monetary policymakers' minds. This article features remarks made by the ...
TOKYO, May 6 (Xinhua) -- As the U.S. Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points on Thursday, analysts said the hike further increases the interest rate differential between the Japanese yen and the U.S. dollar, and adds pressure to the Japanese economy. The ye...
How Fed Interest Rate Hikes Affect the Stock Market This story was previously published at an earlier date and has been updated with new information. Higher rates have an impact on companies; expenses rise as they are now paying more interest on their own debt, which then has customers paying...
To be sure, even with the biggest interest rate hike since 2000 — when the U.S. was in the midst of the dot-com bubble — rates remain historically low. With the boost, the federal funds rate will likely sit at 1%, compared with 6.5% when the central bank last raise rates by...
Rates for conventional mortgages are likely to see more gradual change. The average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage hit a high of 4.8 percent in the last week of may before dropping slightly. Rates for savers have tended to lag the Fed's hikes.The top interest rate currently on offer...
The Federal Reserve enacted its fourth consecutive 75-basis-point interest rate hike as it attempts to cool inflation without triggering an economic recession.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, inflation surged and year-on-year CPI peaked at 9.1 percent in June 2022, the highest in four decades. Despite rate hikes by the central bank to cool inflation, the impact of higher prices continue to dismay Americans, which represent a persistent economic chall...
FED=联邦储备局（美国）全句的中文意思：联邦储备局调高主利率0.25%.
U.S. stocks ended higher for the week after wavering between gains and losses, as investors digested Federal Reserve's latest decision to raise interest rates as well as a batch of economic data from the country.
The aim of raising of the Fed's rates is to adjust the inflation level to a target value. Interest rate hike may have a positive effect on dollar quotes, while lowering can be seen as negative for the US dollar. If the rate remains unchanged, the analysts evaluate the number of "for"...