Throw in solid global economic growth that helped spur a narrower than expected U.S. trade deficit from this month, and it's no surprise that the Fed's bias is probably toward another raise, rather than a cut.

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That played counter to most theories that the dollar would continue to suffer from the prospect of vastly widening yields as the Fed maintains its easy bias while everyone else is raising rates.

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The market place has a slight bias that the Fed will announce QE3, or some sort of fresh stimulus package, on Thursday.

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The market place had a slight bias that the Fed would announce QE3, or some sort of fresh monetary stimulus package, on Thursday.

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The market place has a slight bias that the Fed will announce QE3, or some sort of fresh monetary stimulus package, on Thursday.

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"It was a moderately hawkish statement, no matter how the market is reacting, " says Lehman Brothers economist Drew Matus, who believes that the bias of the Fed remains toward raising rates rather than cutting them.

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Amid the anxiety of what might come next from the Fed, the yield curve continues its steepening bias with nearby Eurodollar futures making slim gains while deferred contracts are firmly lower midweek.

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Its jumpiness about the Fed's quirky new notion of declaring a bias is understandable, even if it may not be justified by the record.

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Moreover, the Fed has the power to anchor a policy rate and thus bias market expectations to its chosen level.

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