Fed Is Expected to Pare Investment Holdings, Officials Signal

Janet L. Yellen, the Fed’s chairwoman, at a news conference in Washington in March. By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM April 5, 2017 WASHINGTON — Most Federal Reserve officials expect the Fed to begin reducing its huge investment holdings later this year, an...

Fed Is Expected to Pare Investment Holdings, Officials Signal

Janet L. Yellen, the Fed’s chairwoman, at a news conference in Washington in March. By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM April 5, 2017 WASHINGTON — Most Federal Reserve officials expect the Fed to begin reducing its huge investment holdings later this year, an...

The Fed now appears to think that Trump won’t boost the economy until 2018

Investors widely believe that the U.S. central bank is on its path of higher interest rates at least partly because Federal Reserve officials see President Donald Trump’s pro-growth agenda heating up the economy this year. However, minutes from the Federal Open...

Federal Reserve wants to start unwinding the $4.5 trillion in bonds on its balance sheet this year

Federal Reserve officials said the shedding of the $4.5 trillion in bonds the central bank is holding on its balance sheet will begin this year. The revelation came Wednesday from a summary of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting held in March, during which the...