Federal brief
FOMC statement: solid activity, elevated inflation, 12–0 vote
The September 16, 2026 FOMC statement is already on the shelf as a target-range brief. This companion keeps the Committee’s own economic sentences in one place for the Federal Reserve agency page.
The Federal Open Market Committee’s September 16, 2026 statement passed 12–0. It raised the federal funds target range by 1/4 percentage point to 3-3/4 to 4 percent “in support of the Federal Reserve’s dual mandate,” and said the Committee is keeping ample reserves.
On the economy, the statement said activity is expanding at a solid pace; uncertainty remains elevated, including from geopolitical developments; domestic spending has been resilient; productivity growth is strong; capital investment is robust; job gains have kept pace with the workforce; and the unemployment rate has changed little.
On prices, the Committee said inflation remains elevated and that the day’s action would support a timelier return to the 2 percent goal. “The Committee will deliver price stability.”
Those sentences are the public text. Read them with the implementation note and the Summary of Economic Projections from the same day.
Source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20260916a.htm
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Source: the official public federal record official record · Federal Reserve · FOMC Statement Sep 16, 2026.
This is a Notice Nearby publisher-desk Federal brief — a short in-house summary of a public federal filing. It is not official agency minutes, not a newspaper story, and not Legal Publication. It does not satisfy a statutory notice requirement.