Interest rate articles

  • Fed leaves interest rates unchanged amid inflation rate higher than 2% target

    May 1 (UPI) — The Federal Reserve Wednesday voted to keep interest rates unchanged, in line with expectations as inflation remains above the central bank’s 2% threshold. The Federal reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee said in a statement that the central bank left interest rates for overnight bank borrowing within a range of 5.25%-5.5%. With CPI inflation at 3.5%, the […] The post Fed leaves interest rates unchanged amid inflation rate higher than 2% target first appeared on Gephardt Daily.

  • Huw Pill dashes interest rate hopes

    Britain’s FTSE 100 index reached a record high of 8,076 points early on Tuesday April 23 as hopes grew of cuts in the interest rate. This overtook the previous day’s 8,023 and outstripped February 20023’s record 8,0476 points. The City was counting on two interest rate reductions this year, with the first announced in August after […]

  • RBA: Interest rate expectations have changed - we explain why

    When analysing the outlook for equities, it can be useful to consider the assumptions financial markets appear to be pricing in. Historically we have found that opportunities and risks are most present when the market is pricing in bearish or bullish outcomes respectively that probabilistically are