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While it may be easy to consider today's mortgage interest rates too high compared to what they were at the start of the decade, the reality is that rates in 2020 and 2021 were the anomaly – not ...

If you've been looking at interest-bearing accounts like high-yield savings accounts or certificates of deposit (CDs), you may see the terms "interest rate" and "annual percentage yield" (APY) being ...

Interest rate swaps are used by institutions and businesses to manage cash flows and interest rate exposure. Swaps involve the exchange of cash flows between two parties, with an intermediary handling ...

The Fed’s largest and fastest rate-hike cycle in 40 years—a 5.25% fed-funds rate increase between March 2022 and July 2023—was widely expected to generate a recession in 2023. Yet, real gross domestic ...

This story was updated to add new information. WASHINGTON — In the end, the Fed decided to go big. The Federal Reserve lowered its key interest rate by a hefty half percentage point Wednesday, moving ...