Middletown Forum : 0% to .25% Fed Funds Rate http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/ This is an XML content feed of; Middletown Forum : News, Info and Happenings outside Middletown : 0% to .25% Fed Funds Rate Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:41:12 +0000 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:02:17 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 10.12 360 www.middletownusa.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=784 Middletown Forum http://middletownusa.com/images/blog-logo.jpg http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/ 0% to .25% Fed Funds Rate : Consider smidder. 4% will save... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=784&PID=3313&title=0-to-25-fed-funds-rate#3313 Author: Middletown News
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Posted: Dec 16 2008 at 6:02pm

Consider smidder. 4% will save anyone big bucks each month. It's a no brainer.]]> Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:02:17 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=784&PID=3313&title=0-to-25-fed-funds-rate#3313 0% to .25% Fed Funds Rate : May have to consider refinancing... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=784&PID=3312&title=0-to-25-fed-funds-rate#3312 Author: Josh Van Cleave
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Posted: Dec 16 2008 at 3:53pm

May have to consider refinancing at those rates...]]> Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:53:06 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=784&PID=3312&title=0-to-25-fed-funds-rate#3312 0% to .25% Fed Funds Rate : Amazing rates. Now if banks would... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=784&PID=3310&title=0-to-25-fed-funds-rate#3310 Author: Middletown News
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Posted: Dec 16 2008 at 2:44pm

Amazing rates. Now if banks would just release some cash into the market so we all can get loans.
 
Possible huge comeback in the auto and housing markets. Especially since homes and autos are prices to move.
]]> Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:44:30 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=784&PID=3310&title=0-to-25-fed-funds-rate#3310 0% to .25% Fed Funds Rate : This could cause mortgage rates... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=784&PID=3309&title=0-to-25-fed-funds-rate#3309 Author: John Beagle
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Posted: Dec 16 2008 at 2:41pm

This could cause mortgage rates to drop to as low as 4%!

Then we can all refinance and save big money.]]> Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:41:48 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=784&PID=3309&title=0-to-25-fed-funds-rate#3309 0% to .25% Fed Funds Rate : The central bank on Tuesday said... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=784&PID=3308&title=0-to-25-fed-funds-rate#3308 Author: John Beagle
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Posted: Dec 16 2008 at 2:40pm

The central bank on Tuesday said it had reduced the federal funds rate, the interest that banks charge each other, to a range of zero to 0.25 percent. That is down from the 1 percent target rate in effect since the last meeting in October. Many analysts had expected the Fed to make a smaller cut to 0.5 percent.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues also pledged to use "all available tools" as they struggle to contain a financial crisis that is the worst since the 1930s and a recession that is already the longest in a quarter-century.

The Fed also made clear that it intends to keep the funds rate at extremely low levels.

"The committee anticipates that weak economic conditions are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate for some time," the central bank's panel that sets interest rates said in a statement.

The Fed's decision is expected to be quickly matched by a reduction in banks' prime lending rate, the benchmark rate for millions of business and consumer loans. Before the Fed announcement, the prime rate stood at 4 percent.

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