The fine points from the Federal Reserve’s last big gathering are likely to confirm what Wall Street sees as glaringly obvious: The bank will jack up the cost of borrowing a few weeks before Christmas. The minutes of a two-day Fed meeting that ended Nov. 1 are widely expected to show the bank is poised to raise its benchmark short-term interest rate to a range of 1.25% to 1.5%. Fed VIPs convene again in Washington on Dec. 12-13 for their last meeting of 2017. Wall Street rarely agrees entirely on anything, but this time investors are totally in sync. The odds of a Fed rate hike in December are put at 100%, according ... (full story)