This chart highlights how businesses and consumers dodged the blow of Fed rate hikes
The Federal Reserve in 2025 is in the midst of a rate-cutting cycle, but its rapid pace of rate increases in 2022 and 2023 ...
Why the U.S. economy is still strong despite the Fed’s 2022-’23 rate hikes
Something surprising happened on the way toward the highest U.S. interest rates in more than a dozen years: Neither consumers nor businesses buckled under the weight of higher borrowing costs from the ...
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Caveat Emptor? Federal Reserve Rate-Easing Cycles Have Historically Served as an Ominous Warning for Wall Street.
Conversely, lowering interest rates would, on paper, appear to be a good thing since it's making borrowing less costly and ...
Q4 Market Cycle Update: A New Cycle Has Likely Begun
The market cycle shows mixed signals, but evidence leans towards a new cycle with rising earnings and revenue for the S&P 500 ...
A wild year for markets, in 5 charts
Stocks seemed to defy gravity again in 2024, but other areas of the market, like bitcoin and the dollar, also saw wild moves ...
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What the Fed rate cut means for loans, mortgages and credit cards
The Fed's last rate hike cycle, which stretched from March 2022 to July 2023, saw average APRs jump from 16.34% to over 20%. Consumers paying interest on their cards are now dealing with an ...
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Housing and interest rate forecasts for 2025
As we reflect on 2024, it was a year of resilience and adjustment for Canada’s housing and mortgage market, marked by the ...