As the federal reserve prepares to hold its first monetary meeting of the year on Feb.1-2,financial markets are bracing themselves.Investors fret that Alan Greenspan and his central bank colleagues are about to junk their go-slow strategy of bite-size interest rate hikes in favor of something more aggressive.And that uneasiness is certainly understandable given what the minutes of the Fed's last meeting on Dec.14 showed.
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