- Control of Growth & Development. Hormones are chemical messengers produced by glands in the endocrine system. Endocrine tissues are specialised to produce such hormones, which have genes switched on according the the hormones they were designed to produce.
There are actually three rates in the U.S. that drive virtually everything else, from bond returns to credit card interest rates. Of these, the Federal Reserve actually controls only two (the Federal Funds Rate and the Discount Rate). The third rate, called the Prime Rate, is the rate that most people falsely believe the Fed changes. In truth, this is the one rate the Fed has no direct control over.
How Rising Interest Rates Will Affect The Stock Market And Your Investments. The benchmark interest rate, known as the federal funds rate, has been set at a record low of 0.25% since December 2008. Itâs hard to imagine that the it averaged 6% since 1971 and soared as high as 20% in 1980. The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates eventually when it believes the U.S. economy can stand on its own without stimulus. The effects of rising interest rates will ripple through stock markets around the world.