The hawkish tone of the Fed’s late-April minutes shows it would be ready to demonstrate its inflation-fighting credentials if it felt compelled to do so. We judge this would require a broadening in price pressures, which are currently still quite narrow – a risk that would be consistent with our adverse scenario assumptions for how events in the Middle East unfold.
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