Federal Open Market Committee
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) controls open market operations for the Federal Reserve. It consists of twelve members: seven members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; and four of the remaining eleven Reserve Bank presidents, who serve one-year terms on a rotating basis.
The FOMC holds eight regularly scheduled meetings per year, where the members review economic and financial conditions, determines the appropriate stance of monetary policy, and assesses the risks to its long-run goals of price stability and sustainable economic growth.
The FOMC holds eight regularly scheduled meetings per year, where the members review economic and financial conditions, determines the appropriate stance of monetary policy, and assesses the risks to its long-run goals of price stability and sustainable economic growth.
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Fed Leaves Interest Rates Unchanged
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Traders see over 50 percent chance on October rate hike
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Market turmoil shouldn't delay at least one Fed rate hike: Bullard
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Fed's Lockhart Expects Fed Policy Normalization to 'Proceed Gradually' - Public Pension Speech
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Bloomberg Issues Statement on FOMC Minutes Embargo Break
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Markets Pare Earlier Losses Following FOMC Minutes (SPY) (QQQ)
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FOMC Minutes Meeting of July 28-29, 2015
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Investors Turn to Fundamentals as 'Momentum' Play Enthusiasm Wanes (SPY) (AAPL)
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Atlanta Fed's Lockhart Sees Rate Hike as 'Close', Expects Stronger Evidence of Inflation Recovery
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Full FOMC Statement: Rates to Rise After Some Further Job Market Improvement
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Fed says labor market continued to improve, job gains solid
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Fed's Williams: 'The Recovery's Final Frontier?'
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Fed Chair Yellen's Semiannual Testimony to Congress (SPY) (DIA) (QQQ)
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Yellen Says it Will be Appropriate to Raise Rates This Year; Unexpected Events Could Speed, Delay Move
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FOMC Saw Conditions Still Approaching Those Warranting Liftoff; Officials Expressed Concern About Greece - June Minutes
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Fed's Fischer Says Economy Likely Warrants Rate Hikes (SPY) (UUP)
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Fed's Williams Expects to Reach Full Labor Employment Later in 2015, Remains 'Wait-and-See' on Inflation
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Fed Says Labor Market Slack has 'Diminished Somewhat' - FOMC Statement
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UPDATE: Dudley Says Fed Still Likely to Start Raising Rates This Year
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UPDATE: Fischer Says Fed Could Slow Rate Increased if Global Growth Falters
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Yellen Says Rate Hike at Some Point This Year 'Appropriate'
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Many Fed Officials saw June Rate Rise as Unlikely - FOMC Minutes
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FOMC Statement: Winter Slowdown Partly Reflects 'Transitory Factors'
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FOMC sees moderate growth even after Q1 slowdown, reflects 'transitory factors'
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Fed Officials Favoring Liftoff Later in 2015 Cited Dollar, Oil
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Fed's Lacker Sees 'Strong' Case for June 'Liftoff'
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U.S. Fed Could Improve Wording Used to Provide Forward Guidance - Fed's Mester
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Fed Drops 'Patient' Stance on Interest Rate; Rate raise 'remains unlikely' at April FOMC meeting
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Fed Drops 'Patient' on Rates
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All Eyes on Yellen, But No Strong Signal Expected
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Many Fed Officials Inclined to Stay at Zero Longer; Dropping 'Patient' May Lead to Date Focus - FOMC Minutes
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UPDATE: Fed Expects Inflation to Rise Gradually Toward 2%; Can be Paient in Raising Rates - Minutes
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Fed Officials saw Rate Rise Unlikely Before April - FOMC Minutes
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Fed's Mester Sees Interest Rates Rising 'in First Half' of 2015 - FBN
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UPDATE: FOMC Says it Can be 'Patient' in Approach to Raising Rates
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Fed's Dudley: Drop in Energy Prices Positive for U.S. Economy
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UPDATE: Fed Officials Saw Need to Watch for Inflation Expectations to Drop - FOMC Minutes
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Fed Ends Third Round of QE as Planned; Sees 'Solid Job Gains' with Lower Unemployment
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Fed Officials Saw Global Slowdown Among Risks to U.S. Outlook
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Fed's Dudley Sees Mid-2015 Rate Hike as 'Reasonable'
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Hold on Tight... Fed Day Could Bring a Number of Changes
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Fed's Yellen says FOMC sees 'significant' under-use of labor resources

