“We expect two further rate hikes, but Fed watching will become much more thrilling than in previous years”, commented Stefan Kreuzkamp, chief investment officer at Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management.
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February gold GCG6, +1.51% trading on Comex gained $13.10, or 1.2%, to trade at $1,062.60 an ounce, a day after sinking to its lowest settlement since 2009 Thursday.
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White House spokesman Josh Earnest said he would not second-guess the decisions made in Los Angeles or { New York New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said: “It’s important – very important – not to overreact in situations like this”.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index closed up 1.3 percent after climbing to a one-week high, while Germany’s DAX, France’s CAC and Britain’s FTSE 100 rose between 2.6 and 0.7 percent.
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77 of 120 economists in a snap poll conducted a couple of days after the meeting, said rates will next move higher by March.
British stocks followed those in Asia and Wall Street into positive territory after the US Federal Reserve’s decision to raise interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade.
It’s thought that come the New Year, markets may again turn volatile in anticipation of the next rate rise.
The Fed coupled its first rate hike in nine years with a signal that further increases will likely be made slowly as the economy strengthens further and inflation rises from undesirably low levels. As well as credit cards and the stock market.
The kiwi was little changed at 82.31 yen from 82.40 yen yesterday ahead of the Bank of Japan’s policy review which is expected to keep interest rates near zero, and affirm its quantitative easing programme.
Explaining the Fed’s historic decision, Janet Yellen, the first woman Fed Chair in the bank’s 112-year history, told a press conference that Fed chose to move now because it felt it was on course to hit its goals.
“This commodity has been a victim to heavy depreciations from the rising optimism around a December US rate rise, and now this has become a reality, any hope for a recovery in prices before the end of the year has promptly faded”, he added.
The market got what it wanted: a tiny rate hike and reassurances from the Fed that it will take a “gradual” approach to future hikes, so as not to derail the economic recovery that has grown stronger amid job market gains.
An updated economic forecast released with the policy statement showed that 14 of the 17 Fed officials foresee four or fewer rate hikes in 2016.
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Ms Yellen indicated that Wednesday’s rate hike was partially defensive.
