• Fed policymakers held wide-ranging debates over inflation outlook, stock prices and financial stability - july 25-26 policy meeting minutes

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17 August 2017

Fed policymakers held wide-ranging debates over inflation outlook, stock prices and financial stability - july 25-26 policy meeting minutes

  • Policymakers disagreed on whether inflation expectations were well-anchored

  • Agreed a fall in longer-term inflation expectations would be undesirable

  • Voting policymakers were concerned about slowdown in inflation and agreed to monitor prices closely

  • Some voting policymakers said further interest rate hikes should wait until there were signs inflation would rise to fed's 2 pct target

  • Several policymakers noted rising stock prices had eased financial conditions

  • A couple policymakers said high stock prices might not pose big risks to financial stability

  • A couple policymakers saw pace of price gains in multi-family real estate and lending activity of certain government-sponsored firms as possible sources of financial instability

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