Total Fed Balance Sheet:
Fed’s Balance Sheet week ending balance sheet was $4,174 trillion up $28.5 billion from one week ago.
The following graph shows the change in the balance sheet from one year ago.
The peak of the Fed balance sheet was in February 2015 – $4,500 trillion. On 29 October 2014, the Federal Reserves governing board (FOMC) stated that…
…the Committee decided to conclude its asset purchase program this month [October 2014].
Then in the FOMC meeting concluding in July 2019, the decision was not to reduce the balance sheet further.
The Committee will conclude the reduction of its aggregate securities holdings in the System Open Market Account in August, two months earlier than previously indicated.
In October, a decision was made to expand the balance sheet.
The Committee directs the Desk to continue rolling over at auction all principal payments from the Federal Reserve’s holdings of Treasury securities and to continue reinvesting all principal payments from the Federal Reserve’s holdings of agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities received during each calendar month. Principal payments from agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities up to $20 billion per month will continue to be reinvested in Treasury securities to roughly match the maturity composition of Treasury securities outstanding; principal payments in excess of $20 billion per month will continue to be reinvested in agency mortgage-backed securities. Small deviations from these amounts for operational reasons are acceptable.
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