In between tweets about Michael Flynn’s court appearance and Twitter making it hard for him to accumulate followers, President Donald Trump on Tuesday made an eye-catching remark about monetary policy: “Stop with the 50 B’s,” he told the Federal Reserve.
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Fed is Expected to Raise Interest Rates Wednesday
The Fed is expected to raise interest rates Wednesday by a quarter point, and the pressure is on for Fed Chairman Jerome Powell to sound dovish — but not too dovish. Fed officials are also expected to revisit their fed funds rate forecasts and roll back some of the rate hikes expected in the next several years.
As Oil Plunges, the Real OPEC Meeting Will Be at Next Week’s G20 – Money Market Guru
For the oil market, it looks like the real OPEC meeting will come a week ahead of schedule.
The cartel is set to meet on Dec. 6 in Vienna, but days earlier the key decision makers are set to gather on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires in a meeting that may well decide the direction of oil prices in 2019.
Crude Oil Continues Big Slide Despite Saudi Talk of Supply Cuts
Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – Futures in New York as 0.4% Monday, extending a record decline. Oil was pulled 2.5% lower after the close amid a slide in equities, with President Donald Trump adding pressure with a tweet criticising the Saudi plan.