FOMC Meeting and Rate Decision

FOMC Meeting and Rate Decision for July 2026 is scheduled for release at 14:00 EDT on 29 July 2026.

Cadence Eight times a year
Next release 14:00 EDT
Countdown until release

What it measures

The Federal Open Market Committee sets the target range for the federal funds rate. The statement is released at the close of the second day; a press conference follows, and the minutes are published three weeks later. Four of the eight meetings a year also carry the Summary of Economic Projections.

Times shown in America/New York · Schedule source: Federal Reserve release schedule · Licence: public domain (a work of the U.S. federal government)

History

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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System · Source data · As of · 6,421 observations

A note on vintages Economic data is revised. This chart plots the series as it stands today — the current vintage — not the figure that was first published on each release day. A revised number can differ materially from the print the market actually saw, so this line is a record of what we now believe happened, not a record of what was known at the time.

Impact on the Treasury curve

Medium 0.93 bp from the 2s10s curve

On this indicator’s past release days the Treasury curve moved that much more than it did on a quiet day — a day on which none of the tracked indicators released — across 101 clean release days , with 96 excluded because another tracked release landed the same day. It is a backward-looking measure of what already happened. It is not a forecast of the next release, and it is not advice. Read the full methodology.

Upcoming releases

Date Time (America/New York) Reference period Calendar
14:00 EDT July 2026 .ics
14:00 EDT September 2026 .ics
14:00 EDT October 2026 .ics
14:00 EST December 2026 .ics
14:00 EST January 2027 .ics
14:00 EDT March 2027 .ics

Past releases

The dates the agency actually published on, newest first. These are release days, not the reference periods the figures describe.

Release date Time (America/New York) Reference period
14:00 EDT June 2026
14:00 EDT April 2026
14:00 EDT March 2026
14:00 EST January 2026
14:00 EST December 2025
14:00 EDT October 2025
14:00 EDT September 2025
14:00 EDT August 2025
14:00 EDT July 2025
14:00 EDT June 2025
14:00 EDT May 2025
14:00 EDT March 2025
14:00 EST January 2025
14:00 EST December 2024
14:00 EST November 2024
14:00 EDT September 2024
14:00 EDT July 2024
14:00 EDT June 2024
14:00 EDT May 2024
14:00 EDT March 2024
14:00 EST January 2024
14:00 EST December 2023
14:00 EDT November 2023
14:00 EDT September 2023

No consensus, and why

No consensus shown — we don’t license survey estimates. The “expected” figure on a commercial calendar is a survey of economists sold by a data vendor. It is not a government work, there is no public-domain source for it, and we would rather say so than print an empty column. There are no prediction-market odds here either, for the same licensing reason.

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