The Fed's balance sheet stands at $7.76 trillion, some 35% of GDP, down from a peak of $9 trillion or 41% of GDP in 2022. Pre-pandemic these figures were $4.2 trillion and 20% of GDP, ...

The Fed just provided over $11B in 1-day liquidity to the overnight repo market. Read the implications for the banking system ...

The balance sheet is key to the Fed’s implementation of monetary policy. Banks hold reserves at the Fed, on which they earn a risk-free return that effectively acts as a floor for rates across ...

The Federal Reserve may have lopped more than $1 trillion off its balance sheet but it's difficult to envisage a scenario where its bond holdings return to anywhere near pre-pandemic or pre-2008 ...

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, ...

The Fed’s balance sheet is currently at around $7.9 trillion, down from its peak of $9 trillion in early 2022 right before the runoff. What’s next: ...

The Fed began expanding the balance sheet again even before the pandemic. By the time the pandemic got going, the balance sheet was only about $300 billion below the Great Recession peak.

Federal Reserve governor Christopher Waller said the Fed's decision this week to slow its balance-sheet reduction came too early and will delay the end goal. The Fed has been letting up to $25 ...

A bad balance sheet killed Silicon Valley Bank. You know what other bank has a similar balance sheet? The Federal Reserve, the world’s largest and most influential central bank. The Federal ...

As the Federal Reserve continues to unwind its balance sheet, it’s still dogged by the same issues that it faced more than five years ago. While market dynamics have evolved, the main issue ...