Federal Reserve officials are keen to start debating their balance sheet run-down endgame, but benign market conditions, recent central banker comments and bond dealer estimates now suggest the ...

Waller said a "hypothetical" Fed balance sheet might stand at $5.8 trillion, with $2.7 trillion in reserves and $780 billion in the Treasury Department's account with the central bank.

The QT process has been running for a little over two years, with the Fed contracting the overall size of its holdings from a peak of $9 trillion to the current level of $7.1 trillion.

The U.S. Federal Reserve's balance sheet grew to a new record size in the latest week, as the central bank bought more bonds in an effort to support the economy, Fed data released on Thursday showed.

The Federal Reserve wants its balance sheet runoff to continue as long as possible, but doing so could mean persuading banks to hold fewer reserves. A sudden spike in reserve demand brought the last ...

By Ann Saphir (Reuters) -Dallas Federal Reserve President Lorie Logan on Monday said she feels the U.S. central bank has more ...

The Fed in early May said it plans to switch up how quickly it will look to shrink its $7.3 trillion balance sheet beginning June 1, a move that was "barely a side note" in financial markets ...

The massive size of the Federal Reserve's balance sheet increases its commitment to keep inflation under control, New York Fed President William Dudley said in a speech Tuesday in Mexico City.

The Fed’s balance sheet ballooned following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 as the central bank raced to calm Wall Street by buying up bonds in bulk.

Federal Reserve Gov. Michelle Bowman said in a speech Tuesday that the central bank erred in slowing down the pace at which it rolls off securities from its balance sheet, arguing that the prior rate ...

If we assume a 7-8% y/y growth rate in currency holdings and $500-1,000 billion in reserves, this would place the "optimal" size of the Fed's balance sheet at $2.2 to $2.8 trillion by year-end 2018.

Both times, the Fed's balance grew in size, reaching a peak of almost $9 trillion in 2022, but the second period of asset purchases consisted mostly of lower-coupon, longer-duration bonds that ...