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That’s good news for your bank accounts, since another rate cut would probably mean a lower return on your money. At the meeting, held January 28-29, the Fed left interest rates unchanged at 4. ...
High-yield savings rates for December 18, 2024. Today’s highest savings rates are at FDIC-insured digital banks and online accounts paying out rates of up to 5.05% APY with no minimums at ...
High-yield savings rates for November 7, 2024. Today’s highest savings rates are at FDIC-insured digital banks and online accounts paying out rates of up to 5.10% APY with no minimums at Patriot ...
While S&Ls were freed to pay depositors higher interest rates, the institutions continued to carry large portfolios of loans paying them much lower rates of return; by 1981, 85 percent of the thrifts were losing money and the congressional response was the Garn–St Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982. [5]
So we finally got a rate cut — and a supersized one at that.
The U.S. prime rate is in principle the interest rate at which a supermajority (3/4ths) of American banking institutions grant loans to their most creditworthy corporate clients. [1] As such, it serves as the de facto floor for private-sector lending, and is the baseline from which common "consumer" interest rates are set (e.g. credit card rates).
Bank rate, also known as discount rate in American English, [1] and (familiarly) the base rate in British English, [2] is the rate of interest which a central bank charges on its loans and advances to a commercial bank. The bank rate is known by a number of different terms depending on the country, and has changed over time in some countries as ...
Rates fell sharply to a target range of 13-14 percent on Nov. 2, 1981, then back up to 15 percent in the first four months of 1982, then back down to 11.5-12 percent on July 20, 1982, records of ...