The Fed also seeks to ensure the stability of the financial system. The Fed uses its balance sheet to help it accomplish those goals. The Fed decides what assets it holds and whether to expand or ...

Currency in circulation, once the Fed's dominant liability, now comprises just 35% of assets due to the post-2008 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Conditions still support ongoing reductions in the Federal Reserve's balance sheet, Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack said on Wednesday, as she also noted that amid great ...

An often overlooked segment of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheets has been growing and could boost the Fed’s ability to stop shrinking its portfolio sooner than expected. A set of deposits ...

NEW YORK—Beth Hammack, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, said the central bank should continue reducing the size of its balance sheet, pointing to potential costs that the ...

Hammack, at a meeting of the Money Marketeers of New York University, spoke at length on her views on the Fed's balance sheet. "We still appear to have more than enough reserves in the system so ...

NEW YORK--Beth Hammack, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, said the central bank should continue reducing the size of its balance sheet, pointing to potential costs that the ...