Tag: Interest Rates

With interest rates set to rise, can you expect higher yields on your savings? Should you be concerned about future interest rate changes?

Alice: Sometimes I believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. The Mad Hatter: That is an excellent practice.

August 17, 2015, the S&P 500 Index was slightly above 2,100. By August 25th, the index had dropped down 11% to 1,867 and it’s been very volatile since then.

How will the Fed weigh recent market volatility, inflation trends, U.S. and global economic data when determining when to raise short-term interest rates?

It’s time investors prepared their stock portfolios for a rising interest rate environment.

Predictions of investor reaction range from Armageddon to a nonevent.

Interest rates aren’t likely to rise too fast, likely stay in the 4% range on 30-year loans for 2015, which looks like free money compared to rates of 16% and more in decades past.

Greg McBride shares his views on what's next for interest rates and inflation.

Major stock prices are near all-time highs. Bond investors didn’t do too badly either. So, what caused this rise? And what should we expect?