Sentence examples for fed fund from inspiring English sources

But the Fed has signaled that it is loath to trim its fed fund target, which would increase inflationary pressures.

Having said that, the Fed still seems not to have managed to stick the expected date of the first rate rises in place; as good news has come rolling in, fed fund futures have signaled expectations of ever earlier increases though they may be responding less now to such strong economic data than they would have prior to the September analysis.And finally, a word on something a bit different.

In a doveish text, the central bankers left no doubt that they were most worried about the downside risks and would act in a "timely manner" to address them.Judging by the price of Fed fund futures, investors expect the federal funds rate to be as low as 2.25% by the end of the year.

Implicitly, Fed policy seems to be based on the view that if only they can restore confidence — with extra liquidity to the banks, Fed fund rate cuts, whatever — they can get us out of L and back to H. That's the LTCM model: Rubin and Greenspan met a crisis with a rate cut and a show of confidence, and the whole thing went away.

(Make sure you understand how Fed Fund futures prices are quotes before drawing any conclusions).

According to the CME Group FedWatch Tool, the 30-day Fed Fund futures prices are indicating a 89.7% probability that the Fed funds target range will be between 25 to 50 bps in November and only a 10.3% probability that the Fed funds target range will rise to a range between 50 and 75 bps.

Since December of 2008, when the Fed cut the fed funds rate target to roughly zero, the FOMC has been scrapping to try and boost recovery without its favoured tool.

The Fed cut the fed funds rate, its main short-term rate, by half a percentage point, to 4.75percentt, on Tuesday, and stocks rocketed upward in the United States and most markets overseas.

Investors are betting that the Fed will cut its benchmark fed funds rate to 1percentt, from 1.5percentt.

In announcing that it would hold its benchmark fed funds rate near zero, the Federal Open Market Committee, the Fed's chief policy-setting arm, said that "the labor market is stabilizing".

On Dec. 16 the Fed took an unprecedented step and cut its benchmark fed funds rate to effectively zero, dropping it to a range between 0.0% and 0.25%.