FOMC minutes release dates 2026–2027

The written record of the last Fed meeting, published three weeks after it. Published by the Federal Reserve at 2:00 p.m. ET; every date below is from its own schedule and shown in your time zone.

Next releaseLow impact

November 18, 2026

Your time 19:00 UTCPublisher 2:00 p.m. ETUTC 19:00

Covers October 27–28 meeting · In 7 days

Google CalendarAdd FOMC minutes dates to Google Calendar Apple or Outlook .ics file

Schedule

federalreserve.gov

Release date	Covers	Your time	UTC
Wed, Nov 18, 2026	October 27–28 meeting	19:00 UTC	19:00
Wed, Dec 30, 2026	December 8–9 meeting	19:00 UTC	19:00

The Fed lists minutes release dates a few weeks ahead; 2027 dates follow each 2027 meeting by three weeks and appear here once the Fed posts them. Read from federalreserve.gov on November 9, 2026. Agencies can move a date; their own schedule is final.

What the FOMC minutes is

Three weeks after each rate decision the Federal Reserve publishes the minutes of the meeting: how the committee read the economy, where members disagreed and what they discussed for the meetings ahead. They come out at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

The decision itself is old news by then, so the minutes move markets only when they show a committee more or less ready to change course than the chair let on at the press conference.

What traders watch

“Many” and “some”: The minutes count heads in words: “many participants” or “a few” tells you how wide a view is.
Balance sheet: Discussion of the pace of balance sheet changes is a liquidity signal crypto traders follow.
Risks named: Which risks the staff and members dwell on hints at the next move.

Questions people ask

Three weeks after each meeting, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time (19:00 UTC in winter, 18:00 UTC in summer).

The statement comes out at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the day of the decision and gives the rate decision and a few paragraphs on why; the chair’s press conference follows at 2:30. The minutes come three weeks later and record the discussion behind it: how members read the economy, where they disagreed and what they considered for later meetings. Full word-for-word transcripts are published only after five years.

On the Federal Reserve’s website, on the FOMC meeting calendars page, where each meeting links its statement, minutes and, later, its transcript. The minutes go up at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the release day, the moment markets see them.