Before The Fed: China?! “An Illegal Siege” On Qatar! Crude Carnage. Oh, My.

Yeah, so this afternoon the Fed will almost surely hike and folks will be looking for answers to a whole lot of questions. The full preview is available here, but one thing you should note is that traders will be watching CPI and retail sales first and indeed, those prints may end up dictating the direction of the dollar and yields more so than the Fed depending on how anti-climactic Yellen turns out to be. "Most investors expect policy makers to stick to their view of at least another hike bef