The group’s median forecast now calls for a Fed funds rate of 3.4% at the end of 2026, up from a prior view of 2.9% at the end of that year. TipRanks is the most comprehensive data set of sell ...

Federal Reserve Cuts Interest Rates By 0.25% The Federal Open Market Committee cut the federal funds rate today ... the quarterly FOMC forecasts, especially members' median forecasts of future ...

The median expectation is now for just 0.5 percentage points of cuts in 2025, versus a full 1% in the prior projections released in September. Fed Chair Jerome Powell noted that the federal-funds ...

Having kicked off its easing cycle with a jumbo half-percentage point cut in September, the central bank has lowered its fed funds rate ... to around 4.40%, the median forecast from a Dec. 12-17 ...

Today's widely anticipated Fed rate announcement will impact how much you can earn on savings accounts and CDs. Here's what to expect in the new year.

It’s almost certainly the most closely scrutinized scatter chart in financial markets. Every three months since January 2012, ...

A chart showing the Federal funds target rate having decreased ... published by the Congressional Budget Office. The Fed’s median forecast for GDP this year is 2.5 percent, compared with an ...

The forecast for unemployment is that it will rise slightly from its current rate of 4.2% to 4.3% by year-end of 2025. Thus, there is no expectation of a hard landing. However, if unemployment doesn’t ...

The Fed’s “dot plot” showed that the median ... federal funds rate by only half a percentage point in 2025. That's half of what central bankers projected when they last released forecasts ...

On December 18, 2024, the Federal Open Market Committee, the part of the central bank that sets benchmark short-term interest rates, said it was reducing that federal funds rate by a quarter point ...