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The Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark interest rate by 0.25%. While we don't know for sure what moves the Fed will make with interest rates this year, the consensus is the pace of rate ...

Seven months into the Iran war, mortgage rates have gone from 5.98% to their highest point since November 2023. The U.S. 30-year fixed mortgage rate averaged 7.40% during the week ending on Oct. 8, ...

APY stands for annual percentage yield, which provides a full picture of how much interest you can earn on savings over one year. APY includes compound interest, or "interest on interest." Interest ...

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We just said that investors are paying 102% of the face value of a bond in certain cases right? So what happens if they are not interested at that price any more? No more liquidity for the mortgage ...

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As Ukraine comes under bombardment and Vladimir Putin brandishes the nuclear threat, should we still listen to the Russian ambassador tasked with investigating the “crimes of the Kyiv regime”?

This data series is part of the Center for Monetary Research. This site presents a weekly and monthly series of the proxy funds rate, following Doh and Choi (2016), Choi, Doh, Foerster, and Martinez ...