Interest Rates

3 crucial financial moves to make now after the Fed’s biggest rate hike since 1994

[ad_1] In a matter of months, it’s become more expensive to carry a credit card balance, a car loan or…

2 years ago

Fed’s biggest rate hike since 1994 means millions more homebuyers may be priced out of the housing market: ‘Desperate times call for desperate measures’

[ad_1] Pity those first-time house buyers. On Wednesday, the U.S. Federal Reserve raised the benchmark interest rate by 75 basis…

2 years ago

100 bps rate hike is ‘medicine to stop this inflation’

[ad_1] Wharton's Jeremy Siegel is calling for a 100 basis point rate hike, and says markets may be "close to the…

2 years ago

Fed’s inflation battle to worsen market turmoil: Canaccord’s Dwyer

[ad_1] Stocks may go into a deeper tailspin.Canaccord Genuity's Tony Dwyer predicts 1980s-era interest rate hikes will exacerbate the turmoil…

2 years ago

Markets are now bracing for the possibility of bigger Fed interest rate hikes ahead

[ad_1] As inflation climbs to new 40-year highs, expectations for interest rate increases from the Federal Reserve are escalating as…

2 years ago

Consumer price index May 2022:

[ad_1] Inflation accelerated further in May, with prices rising 8.6% from a year ago for the fastest increase since 1981,…

2 years ago

Plenty of good places to ‘hide’ as interest rates rise

[ad_1] As interest rates in the U.S. rise, investors can put their money to work by looking at companies in…

2 years ago

Rates Are Rising and Stocks Are Taking a Beating. It Won’t End Soon.

[ad_1] Text size The market reacted violently to the Federal Open Market Committee, which hiked the federal-funds rate target by…

2 years ago

Powell wants to get rates closer to neutral. But what’s that? Think between 5% and 6%, former top Fed staffer says

[ad_1] With inflation surging higher than anyone expected, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, has laid out a policy path where the…

2 years ago

As Inflation Eases Public Debt Load, Economists Sound Cautionary Note

[ad_1] Rampant inflation is helping reduce the weight of the world’s public debt relative to its economic output, a boon…

2 years ago