Fed “Deferred interest rate is appropriate” and almost agree Minutes published Jan. 4: 8:20

The Federal Reserve Board, the U.S. central bank, published the minutes of a meeting last month that decided not to cut interest rates, and there is little consensus among participants that it is appropriate to keep interest rates for the time being. I understood that

Last month, the Fed decided to keep its interest rate unchanged at 1.5% to 1.75% at its last month's monetary policy meeting, and postponed three consecutive rate cuts.

On the 3rd, the minutes of the meeting were released, demonstrating from the participants that the US economy had good employment and consumption, and that uncertainty had somewhat receded as trade negotiations between the United States and China progressed. is.

Others pointed out the risk of overinvestment due to prolonged low interest rates.

For these reasons, participants almost agreed that it would be appropriate to stop the interest rate cuts that had been implemented to prevent the economic slowdown and leave interest rates unchanged for the time being.

However, with regard to the U.S. economy, there are some fluctuations in the economy level, such as the representative index of business confidence in the manufacturing industry fell to the lowest level last year for about 10 years last month, and the future of the economy and the judgment of the Fed Interest is likely to gather.