(MSNBC) Stocks fell Wednesday as minutes from the Federal Reserve’s last meeting showed policymakers are open to the idea of providing more economic stimulus, but that conditions might need to worsen for a consensus to build.
At its meeting in late June, the Fed announced that it would buy an additional $267 billion in long-term bonds with proceeds from the sale of short-term notes. But it didn’t embark on another round of quantitative easing to stimulate the economy.