FOMC Meeting Schedule (Tentative) for 2013
Earlier today, The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) released its tentative monetary policy meeting schedule for 2013. The FOMC doesn't always stick to the exact dates on the schedule (hence tentative), but they do always meet at least eight times per calendar year.
Why is this schedule important to you? Because it's at these monetary policy meetings that The FOMC votes on whether to raise, lower or make no changes to The Fed Funds Target Rate, and when the Fed Funds Target Rate changes, the U.S. Prime Rate (also known as the Fed, national or WSJ Prime Rate) will also change.
Here's the tentative schedule for 2013:
Why is this schedule important to you? Because it's at these monetary policy meetings that The FOMC votes on whether to raise, lower or make no changes to The Fed Funds Target Rate, and when the Fed Funds Target Rate changes, the U.S. Prime Rate (also known as the Fed, national or WSJ Prime Rate) will also change.
Here's the tentative schedule for 2013:
January 29-30, 2013
March 19-20, 2013
April 30 - May 1, 2013
June 18-19, 2013
July 30-31, 2013
September 17-18, 2013
October 29-30, 2013
December 17-18, 2013
January 28-29, 2014
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posted by Steve Brown | 5/16/2012 05:56:00 PM
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