The Federal Reserve’s revised 2027 calendar moves its final scheduled policy announcement to November and reserves October for strategy, leaving U.S. markets with seven dates set for policy decisions.
The schedule keeps eight two-day meetings. The Oct. 26-27 session will focus on broad monetary-policy strategy; the other seven meetings are scheduled to end with policy announcements, the Fed said in its Nov. 12 release. The dates are Jan. 26-27, March 16-17, April 27-28, June 8-9, July 27-28, Sept. 14-15, Oct. 26-27 and Nov. 16-17.
The final planned announcement is set for Nov. 17. The earlier tentative calendar listed Dec. 7-8 as the year’s last meeting. The revision moves the last scheduled policy announcement several weeks earlier. The revision changes the timetable for scheduled policy announcements.
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the Fed’s policy-setting panel, will use October for strategic discussion. At an Oct. 28 press conference, Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said the committee needs to assess near-term economic developments while making room for longer-term discussion. He said “one meeting will focus exclusively on broad monetary policy strategy.”
No 2027 date on the revised calendar has the asterisk the Fed uses to identify meetings associated with its Summary of Economic Projections (SEP). A July Fed report said an independent task force would examine Federal Reserve communications, including the SEP, and could recommend changes to current practices.
Warsh said the Fed had not settled what it would disclose after the strategy meeting, describing the plans as “not obvious yet.” The Fed has not announced that it will stop publishing the SEP or the dot plot.
The dates are tentative, with the FOMC expected to confirm each at the meeting before it. The Fed’s next regular meeting is scheduled for Dec. 8-9, 2026, before the first meeting on the revised 2027 calendar, Jan. 26-27. The update follows a strategy-meeting proposal EconoTimes covered earlier.
