Making a chart of the federal funds rate in 2025 might turn out to be the easiest job in finance. As inflation stays stubbornly high and jobs hold steady, the financial markets are pricing in a good ...

"Going forward, in considering the appropriate federal funds rate, we will watch these developments ... Hammack noted that for years following the global financial crisis, the neutral rate — the point ...

After two interest rate cuts in the second half of 2024, the Federal Reserve announced at the first Federal Open Market Committee meeting in 2025 that it would pause rate cuts and keep the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Beth Hammack said on Thursday she expects U.S. central bank interest rate policy is on hold for the time being amid a hunt for evidence ...

The minutes noted that "a few" officials believed the current 4.25%-4.5% target range of the federal funds rate "may not be far above its neutral level." To achieve a soft landing, the central ...

With an abundance of unknowns swirling through the economy and the halls of Washington, the only gear the central bank really can be in these days is neutral ... of the fed funds rate between ...