The Details. The Fed plans to buy Treasury bills, which are shorter-dated government debt, at an “initial” pace of about $60 billion from mid-October to mid-November, it announced Friday.

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

Wall Street’s ever-shifting outlook on the reduction of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet is once again in flux, with a number of banks and researchers now seeing a good chance the central ...

The Federal Reserve’s plan to shrink its large portfolio of mortgage and Treasury securities marks the closing of a radical chapter in the history of central banking.

As the Federal Reserve debates whether to keep buying $85 billion of bonds a month, the assets on its balance sheet are on the cusp of surpassing $4 trillion for the first time.

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 Fed will sell some of the bonds it’s been buying in an effort to cool the economy. Selling the Treasury and mortgage-back bonds on its balance sheet helps the central bank raise interest rates.

For reference, the Fed's $6.9 trillion balance sheet - down from a peak of over $9 trillion in 2022 - now represents about 24% of nominal U.S. gross domestic product output.

Fed’s balance sheet tops $7 trillion, shows increased buying of corporate bond ETFs Fed’s buying of corporate debt ETFs increases by $1.50 billion Published: May 21, 2020 at 5:36 p.m. ET ...

The Federal Reserve finds itself in a tricky position with its balance sheet policy. Years of bond purchases via quantitative easing caused the central bank’s assets to swell from less than $1 ...