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The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by 0.75 percentage point on Wednesday — the biggest hike since 1994 — to try to curtail today's record-high inflation. While the Fed is expected ...

Average mortgage rates remained relatively steady this week, after jumping to their highest levels since September 2025 the week prior. The U.S. 30-year fixed mortgage rate averaged 6.53% during the ...

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This data series is part of the Center for Monetary Research. This site presents a weekly and monthly series of the proxy funds rate, following Doh and Choi (2016), Choi, Doh, Foerster, and Martinez ...

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