Fed minutes: 'Strongly differing views’ about cutting rates in December

Fed officials are divided over whether to cut interest rates again in December, according to minutes from the central bank’s last policy meeting. “In discussing the near-term course of monetary policy, participants expressed strongly differing views about what policy decision would most likely be appropriate at the Committee’s December meeting,” the minutes read. While “most” members of the Fed thought that lowering rates at the December meeting would be appropriate as the central bank moves rates toward ...