FOMC Minutes

Fed Minutes Should Please Bond Vigilantes

On Monday, we made a few headlines in the financial press with our out-of-consensus prediction that the FOMC would adopt a tightening bias at the June meeting of the Fed's policymaking committee. That would be followed by a 25-bps hike in the federal funds rate (FFR) at the July FOMC meeting. Today, the minutes of the April FOMC meeting showed that the vote to maintain