It did so forcefully during the pandemic: Assets on the Fed’s balance sheet ballooned from about $4.2 trillion at the start of 2020 to nearly $9 trillion at its 2022 peak, as it purchased vast ...

Those purchases more than doubled the Fed's balance sheet to a peak of about $9 trillion by the summer of 2022. ... So far, the fed funds rate has traded exactly where the central bank wants.

The clouded outlook for the balance sheet comes after the QT process just crossed the two-year mark. The Fed more than doubled the size of its holdings by the summer of 2022 via purchases of ...

NEW YORK, Oct 17 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve faces no imminent market liquidity challenges that could stop the ongoing contraction of its balance sheet, according to a new tool launched ...

The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged after its fourth FOMC meeting of 2025, maintaining the federal funds rate.

Economists at Deutsche Bank think the Fed will announce a pause in shrinking the balance sheet on March 19, with the program to resume in September. They don't think QT will stop until March 2026.

In their efforts to offset tax cuts and exert more control over the Federal Reserve, some U.S. legislators have lately focused attention on an otherwise obscure element of monetary policy: The Fed, ...

The Treasury spent big on transfers to households via the Fed. A huge fiscal deficit emerged, and the national debt spiked upwards. But the Fed did not allow this to be reflected in higher interest ...

The Federal Reserve said all major banks passed this year’s stress tests, showing they can withstand a hypothetical severe ...