Federal Reserve Minutes

FRASER, a digital library of banking history in the United States released this week minutes from the first ever Federal Reserve meeting, which took place on August 13, 1914. As a background, the Federal Reserve now holds eight meetings during the year. The minutes of the meeting are then released...

U.S. equities were trading in positive territory ahead of the release of the Federal Reserve's minutes from its December meeting. Heading into the final 30 minutes of trading, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) was lower by 1.22 percent while the PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 (ETF...