Fed Governor Waller discusses balance sheet challenges, QT into 2029, and risks to Fed independence. Read the implications ...

The balance sheet after 12 months of slower QT In May, the Fed will shed another $75 billion or so in assets, which will bring the balance sheet down to roughly $7.28 trillion. In June, the slower ...

“I think the Fed will have a window to cut rates in September,” Rick Rieder, BlackRock’s chief investment officer of global fixed income and head of the firm’s global allocation investment team, said ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said on Thursday the U.S. central bank still has some ways to ...

Financial market participants have pushed out yet again the end date for the effort to shrink the size of the Federal Reserve ...

For the Fed, shrinking its balance sheet, a process called quantitative tightening (QT), is not always so easy and can lead to chaos in the markets. The last time the Fed tried to shrink its ...

Market Snapshot Stock-market wild card: What investors need to know as Fed shrinks balance sheet at faster pace Accelerated ‘quantitative tightening’ could stoke volatility, analysts and ...

Any real economy crunch from the U.S. Federal Reserve's balance sheet rundown may have been ... "In the 2017-19 QT, the Fed balance sheet asset sell-off came almost one-to-one from ...

QT has thus far helped the Fed shed just over $2 trillion from its balance sheet. Comments from Fed officials have suggested that all else being equal, the financial system still has enough excess ...

The Fed’s balance sheet has declined from nearly $9 trillion at its 2022 peak—after doubling since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic—to about $7.4 trillion last week.

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 ...

Reduction of the Fed's balance sheet means less liquidity in the broader financial system, ... Throughout the QT process, Fed officials have pointed to the ON RRP uptake — which peaked at $2.5 ...