The Neutral Fed Funds Rate
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â¢ The level at which the Federal Reserve&#39;s federal funds rate, the overnight rate charged between banks, neither stimulates nor slows economic growth.
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By Andrew Balls in Washington and Jennifer Hughes in New York. The US Federal Reserve on Tuesday raised interest rates by a quarter point to 2.25 per cent and signalled there had been no change in its assessment of economic conditions.
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THE US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates for the third time this year in spite of a renewed surge in oil prices. The widely expected move took the funds rate up a quarter-point to 1.75 per cent, following similar moves in August and June.
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Investors assume that the central bank will reduce the overnight federal funds rate by at least a quarter of a percentage point, to 5 percent. But many market analysts say that will not be enough to restore confidence.
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The Federal Reserve uses interest rates to help manage the economy, lowering them when the economy needs a boost and raising them when the economy is growing at a pace that may
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WASHINGTON: New data yesterday showed US inflation in check, with consumer prices up a modest 0.1 per cent in August, giving the Federal Reserve room go slow on boosting interest rates.
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The market may be stuck in neutral, but your portfolio doesn't have to be.
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U.S. stocks finished flat on Wednesday  after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for a fourth  time this year and indicated it would keep its moderate  campaign of tightening credit instead of shifting to a more  aggressive gear.
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The U.S. Federal Reserve is likely next week to raise its target federal funds rate to 1.75 percent from 1.5 percent, nearing the end of the first stage of what appears to be a two-stage plan to return rates to "normal" levels, the Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday.
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WELLINGTON (Dow Jones)--New Zealand&#39;s central bank is unlikely to alter its neutral monetary policy stance, and almost certainly won&#39;t hike interest rates
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How Fools can capitalize on the current interest rate environment.
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Not too hot, not too cold--and no rate change for the rest of the year?
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The Federal Reserve will raise interest rates Tuesday. It is a done deal. The Fed has been strongly hinting for months that it would raise short-term rates back to more normal levels. At the same time there has been an assumption in the financial markets that long-term rates -- the ones that determine mortgage rates -- would be rising as ...
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(12/15/04)-- Investors are not necessarily eager for higher interest rates, but at least the Federal Reserve&#39;s quarter-percent boost brought no surprises.
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The Federal Reserve on Thursday held benchmark U.S. interest rates steady and, while nodding to a recent easing in core inflation, restated that inflation is its top concern.
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US stocks finished flat on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for a fourth time this year and indicated it would keep its moderate campaign of tightening
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Happy New Year, all you investors with an eye for numerology. According to a popular financial folk tale, there's no need to worry much about Federal Reserve policy or corporate earnings growth in 2005. The stock market, and stock mutual funds, will do just fine because they always prosper in years that end with a five.