🏦Next Fed Meeting & Rate Decision (FOMC)

About Next Fed Meeting & Rate Decision (FOMC)

The Federal Open Market Committee — the Fed's rate-setting body — meets eight times a year, and every decision moves markets worldwide: mortgage rates, stock prices, the dollar and crypto all hang on the announcement. This page counts down to the next scheduled FOMC decision day; when one passes, it automatically rolls to the following meeting.

Each FOMC gathering runs two days, with the policy statement released at 2:00 PM Eastern Time on the second day, followed by the Chair's press conference at 2:30 PM. The full schedule of decision days, as confirmed on the Federal Reserve's official calendar, is listed under Upcoming dates below — that table is generated from the same dates this countdown runs on, so it never lists a meeting that has already happened.

Each meeting runs across two days — the October 2026 meeting sits on October 27 and 28, with the decision on the second day — so a countdown to the FOMC decision is really a countdown to that 2:00 PM ET statement, not to the start of the gathering. That is the moment the countdown on this page targets.

Markets rarely wait for the announcement itself: futures prices imply the expected path of rates weeks ahead, and the "dot plot" of policymakers' projections — published at every other meeting — often moves markets more than the decision. Whether you are watching a mortgage, a portfolio or just the headlines, the countdown above tells you exactly how long until the Fed speaks next.