Federal Open Market Committee Keeps Fed Funds Rate at Exceptionally Low Levels Until Middle 2015

This past week the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided to keep the Fed funds rate in a target range of zero percent to one quarter percent past the end of 2014, until the middle of 2015. This means that these ultra low savings rates will remain low for at least another three years and probably longer. Right now the best savings rates are just above 1.00 percent while average savings rates are less than 0.10 percent.