Series 52: Effective Federal Funds Rate

Taken from our MSRB Municipal Securities Representative Qualification Examination

Definition of the term Effective Federal Funds Rate...

the average rate that banks charge each other to borrow funds overnight via their excess reserves. It is one of the two rates used to determine the interest rate that the Federal Reserve manipulates through open market operations (known as the federal funds rate).

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