Answer (2):

Lewis Y

Federal Funds Interest Rate( Fed Funds-this is what the Federal Reserve fiddles with). This is the rate at which member banks loan each other money for short term.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will announce today(08Aug06), if the Federal Reserve will raise the Fed Funds rate again.

I list a commercial website as a resource, but note that Fed Funds are the ones all the others are based on.

maxvijay2003

Prime Rate