Morning Bid: Traders focus on Fed as key Trump picks awaited
Signs are positive for European stocks' open, with futures pointing up, and equity indices across most of Asia also in the green.
The outlook for Federal Reserve easing seems to have returned as the market's main preoccupation, in the absence of highly anticipated announcements of Donald Trump's picks for the Treasury and trade portfolios. There are plenty of central bank speakers though, including Kansas City Fed President Jeffrey Schmid late in the day.
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