"rate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The Fed raised its benchmark Federal funds target rate three times last year in quarter-point increments, to 5.5 percent.
- "Right now yields on everything from a 10-year note down to a three-month bill are below the 6 percent Federal funds target rate," Mr. Hale said.
- The Fed raised the main rate it controls, the Federal funds target rate on overnight loans among banks, to 5.25 percent from 5 percent.
- The increase in the overnight lending rate between banks, known as the Federal funds target rate, had been expected by economists and investors for weeks.
- The Fed lowered its Federal funds target rate, or the rate banks charge each other for overnight loans, by 25 basis points, to 5.75 percent.
- That would bring the benchmark Federal funds target rate to 5 percent.
- The central bank raised the Federal funds target rate by a quarter of a percentage point, to 5.50 percent.
- Many economists think the Fed is likely to raise its Federal funds target rate by a quarter-point this month, to 5.5 percent.
- The Fed last changed rates in March 1997, when it raised the short-term Federal funds target rate to 5.5 percent from 5.25 percent.
- "It is my expectation that the central bank will raise the Federal funds target rate to 6 percent from its current 5.50 percent," Mr. Johnson said.
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