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Trump Policy Jitters Spur Record $26 Billion Bond Flurry in Emerging Markets

(Bloomberg) -- Emerging market governments have notched up the busiest start to a year for bond sales on record, scrambling to lock in funds before US President-elect Donald Trump takes office.Most Read from BloombergNYC Condo Owners May Bear Costs of Landmark Green Building LawNYC’s Subway Violence Deters Drive to Bring Workers Back to OfficeDutch Central Bank Restores Amsterdam’s ‘Ugliest Building’Can American Drivers Learn to Love Roundabouts?Can States Hit the Brakes on Runaway Roadbuilding?

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Fed minutes show Wall Street pushed back expected end of balance sheet drawdown

Wall Street's biggest banks have pushed back the expected endgame for the Federal Reserve's ongoing efforts to shrink the size of its balance sheet, according to meeting minutes for the Federal Reserve's most recent policy meeting. Banks told the Fed ahead of the December policy meeting that they saw this process ending in June of this year, a little later than what they had told the Fed ahead of the November policy meeting, the minutes of the December Federal Open Market Committee meeting said, recounting a briefing by a New York Fed official responsible for implementing monetary policy. The Fed's most recent meeting, held on Dec. 17-18, saw officials trim their interest rate target range by a quarter percentage point to between 4.25% and 4.5%, cut back expectations of future rate cuts and raise their estimated path for inflation.

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