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Interest rates: the effective federal funds rate; 2-year, 10-year, and 30-year Treasury yields; the average yield on a Baa-rated corporate bond; the Merrill Lynch High-Yield Corporate Master II Index; the Merrill Lynch Asset-Backed Master BBB-rated
St. Louis Fed Research also hosts IDEAS, [9] a bibliographic database drawn from Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), [10] which consists of economic research from more than one million academic articles and papers. As of September 2024, the IDEAS site states it has more 4,700,000 items of research that can be browsed or searched, and more ...
The target rate remained at 5.25% for over a year, until the Federal Reserve began lowering rates in September 2007. The last cycle of easing monetary policy through the rate was conducted from September 2007 to December 2008 as the target rate fell from 5.25% to a range of 0.00–0.25%.
The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage started the decade at about 7.5 percent in 1971 (the earliest year for which data is available), according to Freddie Mac. By 1979, the rate had risen to an ...
Historically, the difference has been around 1.8 percentage point, meaning that when 10-year Treasurys yield 4%, mortgage rates average around 5.8%. But in 2022, spreads began rising, eventually ...
The 30-year fixed mortgage rate — which tracks the 10-year bond yield — is Exhibit A. The rate jumped more than 20 basis points on Thursday in reaction to the Fed's rate cut, climbing above 7% ...
Year-on-year inflation bottomed at 5% in December 1976 before moving higher once again. Paul Volcker was chosen as Fed Chairman in 1979 in order to deal with the challenge of high inflation. In a rare Saturday press conference on October 6, 1979, [6] Paul Volcker's federal reserve increased the Fed Funds rate from 11% to 12%. [7]
The 10-year note yield, considered the benchmark for government bond yields, has leaped about 17 basis points since the Federal Open Market Committee meeting of Sept. 17-18 — reversing what had ...