Could be interesting to see if Chicago's........>

FED: Could be interesting to see if Chicago's Evans and Atlanta's Bostic comment

on negative rates in their appearances today, as an indication whether everyone

on the FOMC is singing from the same hymn sheet ahead of Powell's speech Weds.

- Evans (1230ET) - long considered a Fed dove - has previously entertained the

possibility of the Fed going negative. He said as recently as November that

other global central banks have found -ve rates to be "helpful for them", and

their experience meant "you could imagine trying that" in the U.S. Specifically

for the Fed, "maybe you could get seventy basis points" negative. Though he was

clearly skeptical about whether that would be effective enough vs other policy

alternatives ("don't think that we can achieve enough with that tool").

- And on March 1, Bostic (1200ET) said he would not want to rule out any central

bank tool, including negative rates - last week he referred to the Fed deploying

its "full arsenal" if necessary.