The U.S. government’s closure on Wednesday during a snowstorm in Washington will affect the way the central bank releases the minutes of its Jan. 29-30 meeting, preventing news organizations from reviewing the document before it’s publicly available.
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The Federal Reserve said the record of the meeting will be posted on its website at 2 p.m., as scheduled.
Normally, the Fed provides members of accredited news organizations access to the minutes ahead of the public release time at a central-bank facility, allowing the journalists time to prepare headlines and articles reporting the content also at 2 p.m. local time. That procedure for the media was canceled for Wednesday’s minutes release due to the inclement weather.
