Arabic version: الاحتياطي الفيدرالي يلغي التصويت على أسعار الفائدة من اجتماع أكتوبر 2027
According to Cnbc, the Federal Reserve will not vote on a possible interest-rate change at its Oct. 26-27, 2027, meeting. The Federal Open Market Committee will instead use that session for “the discussion of broad monetary policy strategy issues.”
The change means the Fed will hold seven voting meetings in 2027, compared with eight in 2026. The October gathering is intended to provide additional time for policy deliberation without a formal vote or a post-meeting statement. Under the new calendar, the final meeting of 2027 will be held in November rather than December.
Chairman Kevin Warsh announced after the FOMC’s October meeting that one future session would not include a rate decision, though he did not initially identify the meeting. He said policymakers need regular, timely and information-rich assessments of near-term developments, while also reserving time for strategic deliberations on larger questions and longer time horizons.
Warsh has criticized the Fed’s previous communications approach, arguing that policymakers provided too much guidance on potential policy moves. Since he took over, the Fed has sharply shortened its post-meeting statement and reduced press question-and-answer sessions to about half an hour from roughly 45 minutes. He said the meeting schedule is another element of an effort to streamline communication, and indicated that the number of nonvoting meetings would rise to two in 2028. The FOMC next meets Dec. 8-9, followed by its first 2027 meeting on Jan. 26-27.
