Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Minutes of Federal Open Market Committee Meetings

The policy actions of the Federal Open Market Committee, recorded in the minutes of its meetings, are available in the Annual Report of the Board of Governors pursuant to the requirements of section 10 of the Federal Reserve Act. That section provides that the Board shall keep a complete record of the actions taken by the Board and by the Federal Open Market Committee on all questions of policy relating to open market operations, that it shall record therein the votes taken in connection with the determination of open market policies and the reasons underlying each policy action, and that it shall include in its annual report to Congress a full account of such actions. Links to the minutes for each of the eight regularly scheduled meetings held in 2023 are in the list below.

Meeting Minutes

• Meeting held on January 31–February 1, 2023
  https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/fomcminutes20230201.pdf
• Meeting held on March 21–22, 2023
  https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/fomcminutes20230322.pdf
• Meeting held on May 2–3, 2023
  https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/fomcminutes20230503.pdf
• Meeting held on June 13–14, 2023
  https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/fomcminutes20230614.pdf
• Meeting held on July 25–26, 2023
  https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/fomcminutes20230726.pdf
• Meeting held on September 19–20, 2023
  https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/fomcminutes20230920.pdf
• Meeting held on October 31–November 1, 2023
  https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/fomcminutes20231101.pdf
• Meeting held on December 12–13, 2023
  https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/fomcminutes20231213.pdf

The minutes of the meetings contain the votes on the policy decisions made at those meetings, as well as a summary of the information and discussions that led to the decisions. The descriptions of economic and financial conditions in the minutes are based solely on the information that was available to the Committee at the time of the meetings.

Members of the Committee voting for a particular action may differ among themselves as to the reasons for their votes; in such cases, the range of their views is noted in the minutes. When members dissent from a decision, they are identified in the minutes and a summary of the reasons for their dissent is provided.

Policy directives of the Federal Open Market Committee are issued to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as the Bank selected by the Committee to execute transactions for the System Open Market Account. Adoption of the policy directives during the year are reported in the minutes for the individual meetings.¹

For more information about the Federal Open Market Committee's meetings, statements, and minutes, visit the Board's website at https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomccalendars.htm.

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