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Fed interest rate decision (FOMC) meeting dates

The Federal Open Market Committee sets the target range for the federal funds rate. It holds eight scheduled meetings a year, each over two days, and the decision comes on the second. Four of them are published alongside the Summary of Economic Projections.

Next meeting

Wednesday, 28 October 2026

The Federal Reserve publishes no release time on its calendar, so none is shown.

Second day of the 27–28 October meeting. The Fed does not publish a release time on this calendar.

Why it matters

It sets the price of dollars. The statement wording and the projections usually matter more to the market than the rate itself.

That is a description of how the market treats it, not a prediction and not a reason to trade it. Nothing on this site tells you what a release will say.

Scheduled dates

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Recent meetings

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Dates only. We do not publish the figures themselves — read them at Federal Reserve, which is where they are authoritative.

Common questions

When is the next Fed interest rate decision (FOMC)?

Wednesday, 28 October 2026. The Federal Reserve publishes the date but not a release time, so none is shown here.

What does the Fed interest rate decision (FOMC) measure?

The Federal Open Market Committee sets the target range for the federal funds rate. It holds eight scheduled meetings a year, each over two days, and the decision comes on the second. Four of them are published alongside the Summary of Economic Projections.

Where do these dates come from?

Directly from the Federal Reserve’s own published calendar, re-read every six hours. Nothing is copied from another calendar site and no date is inferred from a pattern.

Other releases

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