FOMC Minutes: September 2026 Meeting
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When the Board released the minutes of this Federal Open Market Committee meeting, with links to the Board’s text and the decision sentence of that meeting’s statement.
The minutes of a Federal Open Market Committee meeting are released some weeks after it ends. This report says when the Board released these minutes and links them. It does not summarize the minutes or say what a participant meant.
The Board of Governors released the minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting of September 15–16, 2026 on Oct 7, 2026, the release date its FOMC calendar prints beside them. The minutes are the primary document: Board HTML · Board PDF.
The statement the Committee issued at the end of that meeting is stored here. Its decision sentence, as the Board wrote it:
The Committee decided to raise the target range for the federal funds rate by 1/4 percentage point to 3-3/4 to 4 percent, in support of the Federal Reserve's dual mandate.
Copied word for word from the Board’s statement for the meeting of September 15–16, 2026. Not paraphrased.
The September meeting page lists the minutes with the Board’s other documents for that meeting.