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The Federal Reserve uses its balance sheet during severe recessions to influence the longer-term interest rates it doesn’t directly control, such as the 10-year Treasury yield, and consequently ...
The Federal Reserve's balance sheet total has ballooned in size over the past decade or so, rising from about $870 billion in mid-2007 to a peak of more than $4.5 trillion in early 2015.
Discover why the S&P 500 defies expectations by rising 72% despite the Fed shrinking its balance sheet by 22.4%.
The Federal Reserve uses its balance sheet during severe recessions to influence the longer-term interest rates it doesn’t directly control, such as the 10-year Treasury yield, and consequently ...
The Federal Reserve would like to reduce the size of its balance sheet, but recent events are dictating otherwise. The Fed's balance sheet grew by roughly $300 billion last week, driven by emergency ...
The Federal Reserve reduced its balance sheet by $27 billion during the week ended on May 15 continuing its “quantitative tightening” strategy.
Now, the Federal Reserve is going to start shrinking the balance sheet again, for only the second time ever. This time, its balance sheet is worth trillions more than it was after the Great Recession.
Transcript Like any other business, the Federal Reserve has a balance sheet with assets and liabilities. On our asset side, we mainly own government securities. As America’s central bank, our biggest ...
In 2017, the Federal Reserve started the process of shrinking its balance sheet post-Great Recession. But after around two years, volatility in the money markets caused the central bank to stop ...
The Federal Reserve's balance sheet total has ballooned in size over the past decade or so, rising from about $870 billion in mid-2007 to a peak of more than $4.5 trillion in early 2015.