"Most participants reiterated their support for continuing agradual approach to raising the target range, noting that thisapproach helped to balance risks to the outlook for economicactivity and inflation," said the minutes of the Fed's Dec. 12-13meeting released on Wednesday.
http://www.odysseyreactaustralia.com

At that meeting, the Fed raised its target range for the federalfunds rate to 1.25-1.5 percent, the third rate hike of 2017. Fedofficials' medium forecast for the benchmark interest rate alsosignaled that there were three more rate hikes in 2018.

http://cheapauthenticjerseyscollege.com
But the minutes showed that two groups of Fed officials were notcomfortable with this forecast. One group believed that three ratehikes this year might be too aggressive and could prevent a"sustained" return of inflation to the Fed's 2 percent target. Theother group thought that the forecast of three rate hikes were tooslow.