the Fed

noun

US, informal

: the group of officials (the Federal Reserve Board) who control the U.S. government's central banking system (the Federal Reserve System).

The Fed has decided to cut interest rates.

Examples of the Fed in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Just like that: a glimpse of a shadow of a suggestion that the Fed might start lowering interest rates again was enough to send U.S. stocks surging and Treasury yields falling on Friday. —Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2025

Now the Fed is returning to its more traditional stance: flexible but committed to keeping inflation anchored around 2%. —Robert Daugherty, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025

And a surprisingly weak report on job growth this month pushed many on Wall Street to assume cuts may come as soon as the Fed's next meeting in September. —Arkansas Online, 23 Aug. 2025

And not only did housing show up on the Fed’s radar, policymakers flagged it as a potential risk to jobs, along with artificial intelligence technology. —Jason Ma, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2025

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