Big business puts some pressure on big banks

The Federal Reserve probably will not announce a rate hike on the second day of its Federal Open Market Committee meeting on Wednesday. But there’s a decent chance it will again by year’s end. And since the Fed started raising rates 18 months ago, we’ve seen the federal funds rate rise a full 1 percent. This is the benchmark interest rate for the economy. When it goes up, so do other rates. And yet, in our bank accounts, nada. Big banks have barely changed the rate they pay, with one big exception: corporate deposits. 

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