the US Federal Reserve has cut benchmark interest rates by 100 basis points. Yet the yield on 30-year Treasury bonds has risen by around the same amount. This divergence between short- and long ...

Between tech busts, a financial crisis and a pandemic, not to mention periods of too little inflation and too much, the nation’s central bank has used short-term interest rates, along with other ...

Some economists were saying Wednesday that the cutting cycle is over, while others think Chairman Jerome Powell’s Federal ...

Long-term interest rates are on the rise and there is no shortage of explanations from the usual suspects. One thing the ...

Could CD interest rates decline again this month? Here's what savers should consider before the January Fed meeting.

We study the two-way relationship between fixed-rate mortgages (FRMs) and monetary policy in a panel of up to 35 countries over the last two decades. The dataset includes quarterly information on the ...

That's partly because if it costs less to borrow money in the short term, there's less incentive to pay higher interest rates for long-term lending ... and investment cycles is that the basic ...

The correlation between interest rates and the dispersion of performance among leading and lagging private equity funds is more consistent across both periods.