Effective Federal Funds Rate Market Daily Insights: H.15 Selected Interest Rates (2024)

FAQs

What is the Fed funds effective rate today? ›

Basic Info. Effective Federal Funds Rate is at 5.33%, compared to 5.33% the previous market day and 5.33% last year.

The effective federal funds rate (EFFR) is calculated as the effective median interest rate of overnight federal funds transactions during the previous business day. It is published daily by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Wall Street expects either a quarter- or half-percentage point cut to the benchmark federal-funds rate, which currently stands at 5.25% to 5.5%.

These changes can also indirectly influence long-term interest rates such as those on fixed-rate mortgages and corporate bonds. The highest the federal funds rate has ever soared was to 20% in December 1980.

The September I Bond composite rate is 4.28% (US Treasury) which is 2.14% earned over 6 months. The September 2024 I Bond Fixed Rate is 1.30%. The November 2024 I Bond composite rate is projected to go below 3%!

What is the current prime rate? The current prime rate is 8.50%.

The federal funds rate is the interest rate banks use when lending money to each other overnight. The Federal Open Market Committee decides it and affects short-term interest rates for everyone. On the other hand, the discount rate is what Federal Reserve Banks charge banks for short-term loans.

When the Fed makes it more expensive for banks to borrow by targeting a higher federal funds rate, the banks, in turn, pass on the higher costs to their customers. Interest rates on consumer borrowing, including mortgage rates, tend to go up.

What is the difference between sofr and fed funds rate? ›

SOFR and EFFR: The Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) and the effective federal funds rate (EFFR) are both overnight lending rates, where SOFR represents lending rates with Treasuries as collateral while EFFR, the base interest rate of the US, is based on overnight loans without collaterals.

When interest rates are negative, lenders pay borrowers for holding debt. This means that someone gets paid interest for holding a loan, such as a mortgage or personal loan. As such, banks lose out while borrowers benefit.

The Fed expects to hold rates steady for now, though many are suspecting a potential cut at the next meeting in September. As said in the July 31 meeting, the FOMC “does not expect it will be appropriate to reduce the target range until it has gained greater confidence that inflation is moving sustainably toward 2%.”

If interest rates reach zero percent, it limits the central bank's ability to stimulate the economy through conventional monetary policy, as there's little room to lower rates further.

As of July 2024, the U.S. federal funds effective rate stood at 5.33 percent.

SOFR and EFFR: The Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) and the effective federal funds rate (EFFR) are both overnight lending rates, where SOFR represents lending rates with Treasuries as collateral while EFFR, the base interest rate of the US, is based on overnight loans without collaterals.

10 Year Treasury Rate (I:10YTCMR)

10 Year Treasury Rate is at 3.66%, compared to 3.68% the previous market day and 4.29% last year. This is lower than the long term average of 4.25%. The 10 Year Treasury Rate is the yield received for investing in a US government issued treasury security that has a maturity of 10 year.