How Rising Interest Rates Will Affect Dividend Stocks
How Rising Interest Rates Will Affect Dividend Stocks · GuruFocus.com

- By Ben Reynolds

Written by Nick McCullum

On Dec. 14, the Federal Reserve announced that they were hiking the Fed Funds rate by 0.25%. This is the rate that financial institutions lend money to each other overnight and has a trickle-down effect on other interest rates in the domestic economy.