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When the Federal Open Market Committee ends its policy meeting Wednesday, it will also release individual members' forecasts for the central bank's target interest rates, called the federal-funds rate.

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Mr. Schwab's most important point is that a return to a more normal federal-funds rate would help restore confidence and start a virtuous cycle in the housing market and elsewhere.

Fed's Rate Policy Isn't Helping the Economy Recover 2012

In an interview, Mr. Bettinger said the "ultra-low rate environment punishes our financial results," but he said a one-percentage-point increase in the federal-funds rate would boost the company's revenue by more than $1 billion a year.

'Talk to Walt': Schwab CEO Dishes on Low Rates, Volatility Brett Philbin 2011

Fifth, through the use of inflation targeting, Mr. Bernanke believes that the Fed will have greater latitude, as he said last week in Boston, "to reduce the target federal-funds rate when needed to stimulate increased economic activity and employment."

Bernanke's Inflation Target Misses the Mark Henry Kaufman 2010

Ditto on those home-equity lines of credit, which carry variable interest rates mostly based on the prime rate, which also trends with the federal-funds rate.

Low Rates Are Good—and Bad Jennifer Waters 2011

In normal times the Fed moves its target for the federal-funds rate— at which banks lend to each other overnight—to influence borrowing, investment and spending.

Fed Prepares to Act Jon Hilsenrath 2011

The Fed agreed to lay out where each district bank sees the federal-funds rate each year out to 2015 in its latest push toward greater transparency.

Fed Forecasts Could Awaken Treasurys Cynthia Lin 2012

Instead of keeping rates low through at least the middle of 2013, the Fed should raise the federal-funds rate.

Fed Could Take Responsibility for Its Role in Recession 2011

Changing to a market rate that is less opaque would be akin to "turning around an ocean liner of enormous proportions," said Darrell Duffie, a Stanford University finance professor, who suggested one possible change would be to switch to a market rate called overnight indexed swaps, which tracks the expected path of the Federal Reserve's federal-funds rate.

U.S. Libor Probe Includes BofA, Citi, UBS David Enrich 2011

The Fed sets a "target rate" that banks follow closely when setting the "federal-funds rate" they charge each other for overnight loans as well as the competitive interest rates they charge consumers and businesses.

Low Rates Are Good—and Bad Jennifer Waters 2011