7 hours ago Fed Meeting Today: Interest Rates, Quantitative Tightening, Powell Speech, and More Why the Fed May Stop Shrinking Its Balance Sheet Sooner Than Expected Last Updated: CONCLUDED Earlier this month, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hinted that the Fed could soon end its quantitative tightening program, the process of steadily shrinking its balance sheet. Now, some analysts think it could stop as soon as today. By Nicole Goodkind The balance sheet is central to how the Fed controls monetary pol ...