The Fed’s announcement that it will “soon be appropriate” to raise interest rates and the numerous hints dropped by Chair Jerome Powell in the post-meeting press conference all but guarantee that a March rate hike is coming. Meanwhile, the Fed set out a brief outline of how it will run down its balance sheet, but with any decision still “a couple of meetings” away, that process won’t get underway until mid-year.
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