Fed prepares to end balance sheet surplus later this year

Federal Reserve officials agreed at their meeting last month to announce a plan to stop cutting their bond and other assets by $ 4 trillion later this year, according to the report. of the meeting published Wednesday.

"Such an announcement would give more certainty on the process to complete the normalization of the size of the Federal Reserve's balance sheet," says the minutes of the meeting of 29 and 30 January.

Officials …