Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

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 ...

Nate Wuerffel, head of market structure and product head for the global collateral platform at BNY, joins WSJ’s Take On the ...

The Federal Reserve's balance sheet has shrunk from a peak of $8.97 trillion in April 2022 to $6.56 trillion as the central bank has unwound much of the Treasury and agency mortgage-backed security ...

Discussions about an optimal size of the Fed’s balance sheet are increasingly at odds with the diverse drivers of how this ledger interacts with a shifting regulatory environment. The Federal ...

Since the “Great Recession” began in late 2008, the Federal Reserve has responded decisively and aggressively in an attempt to contain economic malaise and spur growth. With the Federal Funds rate ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told reporters that bank reserves appear to remain abundant, leaving room for the central bank to continue shrinking its balance sheet, a process widely known as ...

The Federal Reserve can keep reducing its roughly $6.7 trillion balance sheet at a slow pace because banking reserves still remain "abundant," Fed Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday. Powell noted that ...