This month’s charts of interest provide some insights you are likely not seeing in the headlines about the current market environment.
Jerome Powell, the Fed chair, said that “further progress may be delayed” on inflation because of tariffs. Officials kept ...
The central bank penciled in two rate cuts for 2025, but President Trump’s sweeping agenda has injected “remarkably high” ...
To cool the economy and bring inflation under control, the Fed embarked on an aggressive campaign to raise the federal funds rate during 2022 and 2023. The final hike was in August 2023, with the rate ...
Ahead of the Federal Reserve’s next announcement, mortgage rates appear to have plateaued after several weeks of steady ...
Disappointing macroeconomic data releases from the US, combined with US President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements, ...
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Prices are now projected to rise faster than expected at least in part and perhaps largely due to Trump's plans to levy ...
Even though the central bank held rates steady at the last few meetings, average annual percentage rates have eased. The ...
The Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged as expected but downgraded its economic outlook, citing slower growth and ...
The Fed’s dot plot is a chart that records each Fed official’s projection for the central bank’s key short-term interest rate ...
The dotcom internet bubble burst in the year 2000, causing a recession ... the Fed was cutting rates. However, the below chart undeniably shows that periods of high interest rates have often ...