Sentences with phrase «key federal funds rate»

Amid signs of stronger economic growth and a pick - up in inflation, as well as easier financial conditions, the Federal Open Market Committee, the policy arm of the U.S. central bank, is expected to raise its key federal funds rate in March by a quarter percentage point to a target range of 0.75 % to 1.00 %, says Ellen Zentner, Morgan Stanley's Chief U.S. Economist.

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The hikes ultimately will return the central bank's key short - term rate, called the federal funds rate, to about 4 percent over the next two years, which economists generally consider more a sustainable level.

Determining the peak federal funds rate over the cycle is the key to estimating the level of mortgage rates at the end of the current business cycle.

The key tool is the federal funds rate — the interest rate banks charge each other for overnight loans.

In December 2015, as the U.S. continued on the road to recovery from the Great Recession, the Fed raised its target for a key short - term interest rate (the federal funds rate) for the first time since 2006.

Voting against the action were Richard W. Fisher, who believed that, while the Committee should be patient in beginning to normalize monetary policy, improvement in the U.S. economic performance since October has moved forward, further than the majority of the Committee envisions, the date when it will likely be appropriate to increase the federal funds rate; Narayana Kocherlakota, who believed that the Committee's decision, in the context of ongoing low inflation and falling market - based measures of longer - term inflation expectations, created undue downside risk to the credibility of the 2 percent inflation target; and Charles I. Plosser, who believed that the statement should not stress the importance of the passage of time as a key element of its forward guidance and, given the improvement in economic conditions, should not emphasize the consistency of the current forward guidance with previous statements.

While open market activities play a key role, so does the federal funds rate (or «fed fund rate»).

Created in 1913, the Federal Reserve has several responsibilities, including the setting of a key rate, the federal funds rate, that affects all other interest rates in the nation and all over theFederal Reserve has several responsibilities, including the setting of a key rate, the federal funds rate, that affects all other interest rates in the nation and all over thefederal funds rate, that affects all other interest rates in the nation and all over the world.

There was no change to the federal funds rate today as the central bank held their key policy rate steady at a range of 1.5 to 1.75 percent.

To my knowledge, that lowering of the federal funds rate nearly a decade ago was not considered a key factor in the housing bubble.

The Fed lowered the federal funds rate — a key interest rate benchmark that affects most consumer loans — down to zero in 2008 and has yet to raise it.

The key reason: an expected rise in interest rates, in part from the belief that the Federal Reserve will continue to raise the federal funds rate thiFederal Reserve will continue to raise the federal funds rate thifederal funds rate this year.

The long - anticipated increase in the Federal Reserve's key interest rate materialized this week when the Federal Reserve announced it will raise the target range for the federal funds rate to between 0.5 and 0.75 percent, citing a strengthening labor market, inflation approaching 2.0 percent and anticipation that the economy will expand at a moderate pace over the next fewFederal Reserve's key interest rate materialized this week when the Federal Reserve announced it will raise the target range for the federal funds rate to between 0.5 and 0.75 percent, citing a strengthening labor market, inflation approaching 2.0 percent and anticipation that the economy will expand at a moderate pace over the next fewFederal Reserve announced it will raise the target range for the federal funds rate to between 0.5 and 0.75 percent, citing a strengthening labor market, inflation approaching 2.0 percent and anticipation that the economy will expand at a moderate pace over the next fewfederal funds rate to between 0.5 and 0.75 percent, citing a strengthening labor market, inflation approaching 2.0 percent and anticipation that the economy will expand at a moderate pace over the next few years.