lundi 5 janvier 2015

Keep Your Eye on Four Things This Week

There are lots of national and international issues to follow this week as the financial markets resume full functioning after the holiday break. At least four of them stand out in terms of potential market implications.



U.S. Federal Reserve: The release on Wednesday of the minutes of its Dec. 16-17 policy-making meeting will shed light on why the Fed decided to fudge, rather than remove, language referring to the “considerable period” required for the unusually low level of U.S. interest rates.



Was economic weakness outside the U.S. the main cause of the Fed’s hesitation in unequivocally stating it would pull back from that policy?



Or were officials concerned about a “language tantrum” similar to the May-June 2013 “taper tantrum” that severely dislocated markets and undermined their functio




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Keep Your Eye on Four Things This Week

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