A balance sheet shows a company's assets, liabilities, and shareholder equity. Learn how it works, how to read it, and why it's important.

In April 2022, we started shrinking our balance sheet using a process called quantitative tightening, or QT. Since then, our balance sheet has shrunk by a lot because our settlement balances—or ...

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 Federal Reserve's balance sheet total has ballooned in size over the past decade or so, rising from about $870 billion in mid-2007 to a peak of more than $4.5 trillion in early 2015.