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Minutes of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Meeting
The most significant event in financial markets over the course of the month had been the reaction to the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting on 19 March. As expected, the FOMC had announced a further $10 billion reduction in the pace of its asset purchases and a move to a more qualitative form of forward guidance. But the policy statement and increases in some FOMC policymakers’ expectations for the federal funds rate at the end of 2015 and 2016 had been interpreted by some market participants as a change in the FOMC’s reaction function. As a consequence, the short end of the yield curve had steepened ... (full story)
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