The Fed’s October Meeting Has a Set Date. Here’s What the Record Shows

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is also chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee, the group with a two-day policy meeting on the calendar for October 27–28, 2026.

The Federal Reserve’s schedule lists the meeting’s press conference for October 28 at 2:30 p.m. Eastern time. That gives the October gathering a defined timetable for the committee’s meeting and the chair’s public appearance.

Warsh became chairman of the Federal Reserve Board on May 22, 2026. His role as FOMC chairman places him at the center of the committee’s scheduled October meeting.

The Federal Open Market Committee’s longer-run inflation objective is 2 percent. The Federal Reserve tracks that objective through the annual change in the price index for personal consumption expenditures.

That distinction identifies both the committee’s stated longer-run goal and the measure the Federal Reserve uses to assess it. The objective is expressed as a percentage, while the measure is an annual change in a specific price index.

The October calendar and the inflation framework therefore provide two fixed points for understanding the upcoming policy event: the meeting dates and the central bank’s stated longer-run inflation objective. The Federal Reserve has scheduled the committee’s meeting across October 27 and 28, with the press conference set for the second day.

The available official information establishes Warsh’s leadership roles, the timing of the October meeting and press conference, and the Federal Reserve’s definition of its longer-run inflation objective. It does not establish an outcome for the meeting or a policy decision in advance.