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: Many on FOMC Said Labor Gains Needed Before QE Taper
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Top 10 News for 06/24 - 06/28: IPOs are Hot Again; U.S. Growth Good, Not Great in Q1; Fed Mixed on QE3
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Fed Speak: 'Fed Not Only Leaving the Punch Bowl in Place, We're Continuing to Spike the Punch' - Lacker
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Market Wrap: U.S. Income Gains in May; Gold Now Down 28% YTD; Immigration Reform in Sight
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Fed Speak: Fed May Delay Ending Purchases or Increase Them - Powell
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Fed Speak: Fed May Prolong QE If Economy Doesn't Meet Forecasts - Dudley
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Fed Speak: Growth Sluggish, Not Cutting Balance Sheet, Fine with Tapering - Lacker
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Market Players Acted Like 'Feral Hogs' on Fed QE News - Fed's Fisher
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FOMC Statement Provided 'Insufficient Detail' - Fed's Kocherlakota
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Hedge Funds Cut Gold Exposure as Fed Signals Early QE3 Exit (GLD) (IAU)
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'Fed Speak' Critical This Week Following QE Tapering Announcement
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Top 10 News for 06/21: Early End to QE3?; Gold Hammered; Icahn Pressures Dell; Recalling Tesla
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Birinyi Still Bullish on Market, is Staying Away from Apple (AAPL), Bought Goldman (GS), Citi (C)
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Market Misreading Still-Dovish Fed - Hilsenrath
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Fed's Bullard Says Fed's QE Taper Announcement 'Inappropriately Timed'
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Fed seen tapering QE to $65B at September FOMC meeting, End by June 2014 - Bloomberg
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Stocks Fall, Rates Surge as Fed Outlines End of QE; Real Estate in Focus
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Market Wrap: FOMC Fine with QE3...for Now; Men's Wearhouse Fires Founder; 3-D Printing Merger
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Markets Crash as Bernanke Signals the Death of QE
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Bernanke says FOMC may adjust unemployment threshold down
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Bernanke: FOMC may 'moderate' rate of purchases later in 2013
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Bernanke: most FOMC participants don't back sale of agency debt
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Markets Dip Lower as Fed Maintains Course
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FOMC Maintains $85B Bond Buying Plan
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Stocks Quiet Ahead of FOMC Statement
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Is Ben Bernanke Ready to Announce His Retirement?
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Trading Radar for 06/19: FedEx (FDX), Micron (MU), Jabil Circuit (JBL), Red Hat (RHT) Report
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Gold (GLD) Goes Crazy; Trades Up Despite Fed Speak
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Japan's Nikkei Plunges 7%; U.S. Stocks Indicated Lower
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Market Wrap: Bernanke Baffles Markets; Tesla Off the Hook; H-P Stuns Street
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Short Sellers See the Light (HLF) (FSLR) (NFLX) (TLSA)
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Number of FOMC Members Willing to Taper as Early as June Meeting
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FOMC Minutes April 30-May 1, 2013
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Bernanke Warns Against 'Premature Tightening'
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Bernanke Prepared Comments to U.S. Congress on Economic Outlook
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Gold Lower Ahead of FOMC Minutes on Signs of Early QE Exit (GLD) (IAU)
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Bernanke Speech at 49th Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition
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Market Wrap: Fed Keeps Pace of Buying; ADP Jobs Miss Views; Crude Lags on Inventory Build
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Fed Maintains $85B Monthly Securities Purchase Plan, Prepared to Increase or Reduce Purchases
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Trading Radar for 05/01: Facebook (FB), Clorox (CLX), MasterCard (MA), Chesapeake (CHK), Time Warner (TWX), Sands (LVS) Report
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UPDATE: Dudley favors continuing QE following job market slowdown
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Top 10 News Items for 04/08 - 04/12: Change Atop JCPenney; PC Sale Absent in Q1; IPOs on Fire
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UPDATE: Gold Under Heavy Pressure, Breaks Below $1500/ounce
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Notable 52-Week Highs and Lows of the Day 04/11: (RAD) (ACAD) (BYD) High; (AFFY) (NG) Low

