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FED: The Federal Reserve is now comfortably out of their media blackout period
after the FOMC raised the target range for the federal funds rate last week by
25bp, to 2.00%-2.25%, multiple Fed speakers are now on the calendar in the week
ahead. Crowding the midweek Fed speaker engagements: Fed VC Randal Quarles,
Chicago Fed President Charles Evans, Philly Fed President Patrick Harker, Fed
Board of Governors member Lael Brainard, Clev Fed President Loretta Mester and
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. TD Securities posited "that hawkish rhetoric from
some of the speakers could help offset some of the recent steepening of the
curve."

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