Federal Reserve officials are on a course to raise rates as soon as their December meeting, notes from their November meeting released Thursday suggest.

Nearly all members of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy committee thought that another increase in the central bank’s interest rate target would be warranted “fairly soon,” the minutes from the November meeting in Washington said.

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