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.

It started reducing the size of its balance sheet in late 2017 to slowly unwind that stimulus, a process that ended last August. But September's money market upheaval indicated officials had let ...

As the Federal Reserve looks to shrink its near $9 trillion balance sheet to help cool U.S. inflation pegged at a 40-year high, the process might not be as straightforward as its two-year growth ...

The balance sheet is key to the Fed’s implementation of monetary policy. Banks hold reserves at the Fed, on which they earn a risk-free return that effectively acts as a floor for rates across ...

Normally the Federal Reserve makes a profit from its balance sheet, but with higher interest rates it is now in the red. WSJ explains how the Federal Reserve makes money, what it does with it, and ...

It started reducing the size of its balance sheet in late 2017 to slowly unwind that stimulus, a process that ended last August. But September's money market upheaval indicated officials had let ...