Federal Reserve meeting —

At its 27 January 2021 meeting, the Federal Reserve held its policy rate at 0.00–1.00%.

Decision

hold — 0.00–1.00% to 0.00–1.00%

Key passages

The Committee decided to keep the target range for the federal funds rate at 0 to 1/4 percent

Expected decision: rates unchanged at zero lower bound.

expects it will be appropriate to maintain this target range until labor market conditions have reached levels consistent with the Committee’s assessments of maximum employment and inflation has risen to 2 percent and is on track to moderately exceed 2 percent for some time.

Rate forward guidance links to both employment and inflation overshoot; no rate hike until conditions met.

Meeting documents

Background reading

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