Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. The federal funds rate is one of the Federal Reserve’s key tools for guiding U.S. monetary policy. It impacts everything from the ...

Traders in the federal-funds futures market are expecting the Federal Reserve will hold its benchmark interest rate steady until June, when they anticipate a potential rate cut. Fed-funds futures ...

Fed-funds futures indicated that traders were less certain about the Fed continuing to pause its rate-cutting cycle at its May meeting, pricing in a 52.5% probability of its policy rate being ...