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After raising the interest rates on March 15 to range of 0.75-1.0%, FED stays on hold today with no changes in policy. The FOMC statement for the May 2017 meeting Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in March indicates that the labor market has continued to strengthen even as growth in economic activity

Prior was 0.50%-0.75% Policy to support sustained return to 2% inflation Repeats labor market strengthening, job gains solid Business investment appears to have firmed somewhat Rate hikes to be ‘gradual’, that’s a small change from ‘only gradual’ previously Repeats that near-term risks to outlook ‘roughly balanced’ Excluding food and energy, inflation is still below 2% FOMC Statement from the Federal Reserve

The Federal Reserve increased its key interest rate by 0.25% on Wednesday. It signified the Fed’s confidence in the improving U.S. economy. Rising rates will affect millions of Americans, including home buyers, savers and investors. Fed officials raised its target for short-term interest rates by 0.25 percentage points to a range of 0.50% and 0.75%. It was just the second

While the USD is on his knees before a decision, is there any possiblity from FED to hike the rates today? Well, the market is not expecting that move for sure, but the FED’s monetary policy statement could be a hint when something like that could happen and is it December a month for that decision!? There is no press conference

It’s September and what now? The possibility of raising interest rates today is very small, but you saw how the market reacts to the current threats, like on BoJ’s decision from this morning and latter on the day during the Press Conference. The central bankers are leading this game and we must dance as they play. That’s why you should be extremely

While FED’s Bullard will have speech in about 5 minutes, we are expecting the FOMC minutes latter on. We will probably see the ’empty talk’!? I still don’t believe that we will see a clear guide to the future US interest rate policy after today’s release, but it could be interesting moves in the current nervous market in August. This release could be

Is there any chance from FED to hike today? Based on the latest terrible May employment report and following UK Brexit vote in June, the possibility of that action is very low. The market expectation from FED is to stand on hold until the meeting in July or September. That’s why the message from the FOMC could be that they expect to hike

19:00 h (London time) > FED Interest Rate Decision!!! > Current 0.5%, Consensus 0.5%. Update 0.5%!!! 19:00 h (London time) > FED’s Monetary Policy Statement!!! There was not much of expectations from FED today, everything stays the same.