The Federal Reserve’s next moves on the size of its balance sheet could matter for banks as much or more than its rate decisions, says Heard on the Street columnist Telis Demos. Last week, ...

Since November 26, 2025, the last date the Federal Reserve produced a balance sheet before it began to add securities to its ...

The reason is that US money markets have remained choppy even after Fed announced it would stop the process of “quantitative ...

Federal Reserve is restarting quantitative easing after massive balance-sheet reductions since 2022. Inflation remains near 3 ...

Specifically, the Fed announced it will launch “reserve management purchases” of about $40 billion per month “on an ongoing basis.” In other words, the Fed is going to aid and abet the federal ...

The Federal Reserve has begun purchasing short-dated U.S. government bonds after concluding that bank reserves had fallen ...

NEW YORK, April 23 (Reuters) - Conditions still support ongoing reductions in the Federal Reserve's balance sheet, Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack said on Wednesday, as she also noted that amid ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled the central bank may stop shrinking its balance sheet in the coming months. The Fed chair also indicated labor-market prospects continue to worsen, a ...

Discussions about an optimal size of the Fed’s balance sheet are increasingly at odds with the diverse drivers of how this ledger interacts with a shifting regulatory environment. The Federal ...

The Federal Reserve has begun a new round of Treasury bill purchases aimed at keeping bank reserves “ample” and short-term funding markets stable. Officials hig ...

The Federal Reserve is ready to expand its balance sheet once more by buying short-term Treasury securities, aiming to head off bouts of pressure in overnight lending markets that are critical to the ...