Below you will find example sentences with "fed funds". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Fed Funds in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: fed
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 13
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 27.4 words

Words in this phrase

fed funds

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • fed can mean: A federal government officer or official. Frequent word
  • funds can mean: plural of fund Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 4 start, 12 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

activity in fed funds used by 1× an overall fed funds perspective those 1× and the fed funds rate 1× as the fed funds futures market 1× change the fed funds rate 1× fed funds futures are 1× fed with fed funds futures pricing 1× getting the fed funds rate to 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

activity in fed 1× as an example 1× central banks come 1× fed funds futures 1× first trust s 1× fixed income investors 1×

Common sentence endings:

fed funds rate 2× 25 basis points 1× a soft landing 1× by the market 1× down the economy 1× full percentage point 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

rate 21× year 5× futures 4× cuts 4× rates 4× meeting 3× markets 3× central 3× current 3× next 2× banks 2× bank 2×

Related phrases

mutual funds raise funds fed president hedge funds equity funds pension funds fed meeting fed officials fed chair raising funds

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around fed:

fed president 12× fed meeting 8× fed officials 8× fed chair 7×

Just before it in the phrase index:

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Just after it in the phrase index:

fed meeting fed officials fed president federal appeals federal authorities federal aviation

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

fed president fed meeting fed officials fed chair

Same ending:

mutual funds raise funds hedge funds equity funds pension funds raising funds

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "fed funds" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 27.4 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as activity in fed funds used by, an overall fed funds perspective those, rate, year and futures stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with mutual funds, raise funds, fed president, fed president, fed meeting and fed officials, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with fed funds

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

And then from an overall Fed funds perspective, those expectations are all over the place. (15 words)

Fed funds futures are showing roughly 71% odds of the central bank not hiking rates in June now. (18 words)

Getting the Fed funds rate to 5% would mean only one more rate increase of 25 basis points. (18 words)

Longer example sentences

Central banks come back into the spotlight in the week ahead, and while the Fed is all but certain to maintain the Fed Funds rate at its current 5.50% upper bound in this meeting, the focus will be on the outlook for future rate hikes. (46 words)

Money markets have priced in an 86% probability that policymakers will reduce the Fed funds target rate by at least 25 basis points at the conclusion of their March policy meeting, according to CME’s FedWatch tool. (37 words)

Fixed income investors have moved well ahead of the Fed with Fed Funds futures pricing in at least three rate cuts this year and a 1.25-1.50% rate by the middle of next year (). (36 words)

Example sentences (20)

The next Fed meeting is December 11th and the markets are expecting the Fed to not change the Fed Funds rate.

Activity in fed funds—used by banks and government-backed lenders to exchange cash reserves parked at the Fed—surged throughout the past year when the central bank raised at the fastest pace in decades.

Central banks come back into the spotlight in the week ahead, and while the Fed is all but certain to maintain the Fed Funds rate at its current 5.50% upper bound in this meeting, the focus will be on the outlook for future rate hikes.

Should the Fed start to ease in mid-2024, as the Fed funds futures market is forecasting, stocks are currently sitting in the sweet spot of the cycle.

The messaging is consistent with the prevailing view seen in Fed funds futures, that the Fed only has one more rate hike to go in May before pausing in June.

Looking back on the Fed’s last successful soft landing of the economy in 1995, the real Fed Funds rate was similar to current levels before rate cuts began.

As an example of the Fed’s consistency, it lowered the Fed Funds rate by 1.50% in a matter of weeks in the spring.

They are still engaging in stealth QE but in terms of the Fed Funds rate, it appears that cuts are now done and the Fed has engineered a 'soft landing'.

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First Trust’s Brian Wesbury has that Fed interest rates should track nominal GDP, which would put Fed Funds around 3%.

Fixed income investors have moved well ahead of the Fed with Fed Funds futures pricing in at least three rate cuts this year and a 1.25-1.50% rate by the middle of next year ().

The rate cuts come amid President Trump’s call for the Fed to lower the Fed funds rate by a full percentage point.

Through monetary policy actions–that is, buying or selling securities–the US Federal Reserve (Fed) has control over two short-term interest rates, the discount rate and the fed funds rate.

And then from an overall Fed funds perspective, those expectations are all over the place.

Fed funds futures are showing roughly 71% odds of the central bank not hiking rates in June now.

From the two-year tenor all the way to 30-year, U.S. yields are below the current Fed funds rate of roughly 4.8 percent as markets have dramatically repriced the rates outlook.

Getting the Fed funds rate to 5% would mean only one more rate increase of 25 basis points.

In other words, when Fed Funds rate is above core inflation, it is considered 'restrictive' and will most likely slow down the economy.

In this graphic, GS offers its view of expected Fed funds rate increases compared to what is currently priced in by the market.

Money markets have priced in an 86% probability that policymakers will reduce the Fed funds target rate by at least 25 basis points at the conclusion of their March policy meeting, according to CME’s FedWatch tool.

Note in the chart above what doesn’t go crashing to earth in the wake of the banking problems: the Fed funds rate (crimson trendline).

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