Interest rates

On Wednesday, March 16, Fed officials announced that they would raise their benchmark federal-funds rate by a quarter percentage point to a range between 0.25% and 0.5% from near zero.

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The Federal Reserve is now fighting inflation and to do so it has refocused its attention on its policy rate of interest. Read more here.

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CD interest rates are currently high but will they stay there in 2024? We asked some experts to weigh in.

Interest rates can make or break personal financial management when it comes to credit cards, mortgages, auto loans, bonds and more.

For the fifth time this year, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in the US have voted unanimously to raise the interest rate paid on reserve balances by 0.5 basis points to 4.4 per cent, effective December 15, 2022. The target range for the federal funds rate has been raised to 4.25 to 4.5 per cent, with a view to tame inflation.

The US Federal Reserve (Fed) has raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to a target range of 4.5-4.75 per cent—the eighth consecutive rise by the central bank since March 2022. Inflation has eased somewhat but remains elevated, the Fed’s federal open market committee said, cautioning that ongoing increases would be needed to control inflation.

Consumers hit with higher prices due to inflation likely aren't looking forward to interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve. Why rate increases make sense.