The Fed voted to push interest rates lower.
The minutes of the Dec. 16-17 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee confirmed what many analysts had suspected at the time--the nation’s central bank slightly eased its controls over growth of the money supply. That easing, coupled with euphoria over the new Gramm-Rudman budget-balancing law, helped spur a significant drop in interest rates in December.
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