Fed & Macro
FOMC
The Fed committee that sets U.S. interest-rate policy, its meetings are the market's biggest scheduled catalysts.
Also known as: Federal Open Market Committee, The Fed
- What it is
- The FOMC is the Federal Reserve body that sets monetary policy, chiefly the target for the federal funds rate. It meets roughly eight times a year and issues statements, projections, and a press conference. Its decisions steer borrowing costs across the economy.
- How it moves markets
- FOMC decisions and guidance reprice everything from bonds to growth stocks by shifting rate expectations. Rate-sensitive sectors move most on hawkish or dovish surprises. Investors trade the statement, dot plot, and Chair's tone.
- Track record
- Surprise shifts in FOMC guidance have triggered broad, same-day repricing across equities, bonds, and currencies.
- Who it affects
- Rate-sensitive groups: XLF, XLRE, XLK; broad SPY, TLT.
- Related terms
- federal-funds-rate, quantitative-tightening, yield-curve
- Common misread
- It is often the guidance and tone, not the rate move itself, that drives the reaction; trading only the decision misreads it.
- Watch out for
- Much is priced via futures beforehand, so the surprise, not the level, moves markets.
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