Federal Reserve release calendar, March 2026 Mar 18, 2026 FOMC Meeting the Fed meeting
The Federal Reserve Board scheduled FOMC Meeting, the Fed meeting, for 2:00 PM EDT on Wednesday, Mar 18, 2026, and that date has passed. The next one lands Apr 29, 2026.
The scheduled date has passed. JMM has not captured a release receipt for it, so this entry evidences the schedule and not the publication.
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- Chicago 1:00 PM Wednesday
- New York 2:00 PM Wednesday
- London 6:00 PM Wednesday
- Frankfurt 7:00 PM Wednesday
- Mumbai 11:30 PM Wednesday
- Tokyo 3:00 AM Thursday, next day
- Sydney 5:00 AM Thursday, next day
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What it measuresFOMC Meeting, in one paragraph
An FOMC meeting is where the Federal Open Market Committee sets the target range for the federal funds rate, the overnight rate that sits underneath the price of nearly every other loan in the United States. The decision is released on the second day of a two-day meeting, and four of the eight meetings a year also carry the Summary of Economic Projections, the chart of where each participant expects rates to go.
What JMM reads first
The rate decision is usually the least surprising part of the afternoon, because the market has been pricing it for weeks. What moves is the distance between the statement and the one before it, and on projection meetings the dots. Read the statement against its predecessor sentence by sentence, then read the projections for how far the committee thinks it still has to travel, and treat the press conference as a separate event that can undo the first two.
The month around this date The Federal Reserve release calendar for March 2026
The Federal Reserve calendar carries 1 release across 1 day of March 2026. Every marked day is listed below with its exact release time.
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FOMC Meeting 2:00 PM ET, this page
The run of dates Date 2 of the 16 FOMC Meeting entries JMM holds
The source calendar puts these 16 dates a median of 42 days apart. This one falls 49 days after the previous entry. The widest interval in the run is 49 days, between Jan 28, 2026 and Mar 18, 2026.
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- Status
- Awaiting receiptThe scheduled date has passed. JMM has not captured a release receipt for it, so this entry evidences the schedule and not the publication.
- Period covered
- Two-day meeting beginning March 17
- Also on this date
- Carries the Summary of Economic Projections
- Schedule basis
- Stated by the sourceThe Federal Reserve calendar states these dates and marks every future one tentative until the meeting before it confirms it. The calendar itself prints no clock. The 2:00 PM Eastern time is taken from the FOMC statement and minutes press releases, each of which carries the line "For release at 2:00 p.m." with the seasonal timezone; five of those documents were read for this schedule, so for a meeting whose release does not exist yet the time is that precedent rather than a captured fact.
- Effective period
- Not specified by source
- Scheduled time
- Mar 18, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT
- JMM retrieval
- Aug 14, 2026, 8:16 AM EDT
- Forecast connection
- None published A published JMM question that settles on this record would freeze its probability before the time above.
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Schedule source. The source timezone is retained; Published requires a separate release receipt.
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