If you've been paying attention to chatter about interest rates in recent years, you've probably come across the term "federal funds rate" – or just "fed funds rate" for short. But what exactly is the ...

Wednesday's decision to reduce the benchmark federal-funds rate by a quarter point—to between 3.5% and 3.75%, a three-year low—is aimed at protecting against a sharper-than-anticipated slowdown in ...

The Federal Reserve concluded its last meeting of the year with a widely anticipated 25 basis point cut to the federal funds rate (FFR), bringing it to a range of 3.50-3.75%. Inflation has proven ...

The new fed funds rate is expected to be 3.625%, for an expected decline of 25 bps. The Treasury yield curve remains relatively flat from fed funds to the 10-year maturity, which is yielding 4.15% as ...

Bitcoin's greatest bull runs have, in the past, coincided with a low federal funds rate. The Federal Reserve could soon cut that interest rate again. This is just one of many factors affecting Bitcoin ...