Finance
Biggest Banks’ Loan Yields Keep Falling Even as Fed Remains Wary
The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building in Washington, DC.
Photographer: Al Drago/BloombergPresident Donald Trump is frustrated that the Federal Reserve hasn’t lowered interest rates this year. At the biggest US banks, loan yields are steadily dropping anyway.
The central bank reduced its benchmark rate by a full point last year and then stood pat, but the impact is continuing to filter through borrowing costs set by the banks.