United Kingdom Retail Sales ex-Fuel (MoM) below expectations (-0.5%) in October: Actual (-0.9%)

Yann Quelenn, Market Analyst at Swissquote Bank, suggests that usually three weeks after each FOMC, the Fed minutes were largely awaited and it seems that Fed members have judged that US economic conditions have expanded at a decent pace in recent months and a December lift-off is clearly a possibility.