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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...