FOMC Meeting Dates 2018
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), is a committee within the Federal Reserve System (the Fed) Its mandate is to oversee the nation’s open market operations (i.e., the Fed’s buying and selling of United States Treasury securities). This Federal Reserve committee makes key decisions about interest rates and the growth of the United States money supply.
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) consists of twelve members, the 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 serves one year term. The Federal Reserve said their farewell to Janet Yellen who was the 15th Chairwoman of the Federal Reserve from the 3rd of February 2014 – the 3rd of February 2018. Her last meeting was on the 31st of January 2018. The newly appointed Fed Chair, Jerome Powell will be sworn in on Monday the 5th of Fecruary and he is expected to hike the rates in his March meeting.
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