For reference, the Fed's $6.9 trillion balance sheet - down from a peak of over $9 trillion in 2022 - now represents about 24% of nominal U.S. gross domestic product output.

It now aims to unload just shy of $100 billion per month, and so far that approach has taken nearly $420 billion of bonds off the Fed's balance sheet.

KKR’s head of global macro, balance sheet and risk hasn’t significantly altered his opinion over the first half of 2025, but ...

Balance sheets and other metrics of risk clearly are not the only things that matter in this environment. You should apply everything above to the real-life scenarios playing out in front of you.

It’s a good time to consider active funds with flexible mandates to play offense and defense amid uncertainty about the macroeconomic environment.

Thanks to bond-buying schemes put in place to ease monetary conditions during the pandemic, the Fed now holds some $5.8trn-worth of Treasuries, a quarter of the $23.2trn-worth the government has ...

The Federal Reserve is currently shrinking its balance sheet through quantitative tightening. It's choosing not to reinvest the proceeds from maturing bond holdings in a bid to tame inflation.

Volatility in the bond market has surged to levels seen during the 2008 Great Financial Crisis. The surge in volatility comes as the Fed accelerates the reduction of its $9 trillion balance sheet.

Federal Reserve officials believe their effort to shrink the U.S. central bank's bond holdings is far from done, pushing back against some economists' idea that dwindling financial sector ...