The Fed is next schedule to meet in December. Currently the market has a 100% chance that the fed will increase interest rates when it next meets. The markets will now focus on March 2019.
The 2-year yield dropped 5-basis points in the wake of Powell’s speech. The Fed chair said the central bank would be data dependent, and would continue to strive for neutral policy.
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By stating that the Fed was near a range that would be considered neutral, Powell reduced expectations that the Fed would increase rates by 100-basis points in 2019.
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The markets now believes that it is priced correctly, and that could cap upward momentum in the greenback. Since gold is priced in dollars, a weaker dollar will provide upside to the yellow metal.
