File photo: The Federal Reserve Board’s meeting room in Washington, photographed in 2007. Photo: Britt Leckman / Federal Reserve Board, via Wikimedia Commons / public domain. Cropped and resized.
The Federal Reserve will use its October 2027 meeting to discuss monetary-policy strategy rather than issue its usual policy decision, and has moved the year’s final scheduled policy meeting from December to November.
In a revised tentative calendar released Thursday, the central bank listed November 16-17 as its final meeting of 2027. The previous calendar had put that meeting on December 7-8.
The October 26-27 meeting will be dedicated to broad monetary-policy strategy issues. For the other listed meetings, the Federal Open Market Committee will announce its policy decision on the second day as usual, the Fed said.
The revised 2027 schedule is:
- January 26-27
- March 16-17
- April 27-28
- June 8-9
- July 27-28
- September 14-15
- October 26-27: monetary-policy strategy discussion, without the usual policy decision
- November 16-17
The Fed also listed a meeting for January 25-26, 2028.
The change matters for businesses, borrowers and investors who use the Fed’s calendar to track scheduled interest-rate decisions. An October strategy meeting is not the same as a regular policy-decision meeting, and the revised timetable puts the last scheduled 2027 decision in November rather than December.
Thursday’s announcement changes the calendar. It does not announce an interest-rate change or say what policy decision the committee will make at a future meeting. The schedule remains tentative.
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