Article: Urgent: US Fed raises federal funds rate to 2.5 percent

Article: Expectations, Open Market Operations, and Changes in the ...
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review;  July 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... decreased its target for the federal funds rate. This target is now the focus ... consistent with an average federal funds rate near this target. While FOMC ... years were made in terms of a federal funds rate target, these decisions were ...

Article: Using federal funds futures rates to predict ...
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review;  November 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... adjustments to its target for the federal funds rate. Such adjustments are believed ... contingent on what they believe the federal funds rate will be, they necessarily ... funds rate, and the overnight federal funds rate stays close, on average ...

Article: A federal funds rate equation
Economic Inquiry;  July 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... reaction function in which the federal funds rate rises if real GDP rises above ... explains the behavior of the federal funds rate during the period 1979 to 1992 ... premises that underlie the federal funds-rate equation estimated here. Section ...

Article: A Look at Federal Funds Rate
AP Online;  May 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... The Fed's main tool is the federal funds rate, which it can raise or lower ... answer form, is a look at the federal funds rate and other tools at the Fed's disposal: Q: What is the federal funds rate? A: The federal funds rate ...

Article: Targeting the fed funds rate. (federal ...
Futures (Cedar Falls, Iowa);  November 1, 1991 ;     700+ words ...Targeting the Fed funds rate Traders of Chicago Board of Trade ... Fed's policy instruments, the Fed funds rate. But it's not clear the policies ... s target for the overnight "Fed funds rate" runs consistently below the actual ...

Article: When did the FOMC begin targeting the federal funds ...
Journal of Money, Credit & Banking;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... an explicit target for the federal funds rate. Surprisingly, the FOMC never ... term fluctuations in the federal funds rate." (1) Over time, the FOMC ... the Fed began targeting the federal funds rate "sometime" before the stock ...

Article: Analysts: Fed will maintain funds rate.(Federal ...
The Bond Buyer;  August 22, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... The fact that the committee decided to lower the federal funds rate in July indicates that the Federal Reserve believes ... monetary policy is a 2% inflation-adjusted real federal funds rate. Currently, the real rate is at 2.75%, they ...