My personal feeling is they won't raise rates next week but will raise them .5% at the next meeting. Not that it matters to me, credit free here............:^
Good luck,
M_M
Hi Coolhand. TheFed rateis the driver of the bank prime lending rate and the Fed wants to raise the rate in a progressive manner as a combatant against inflation that is growing around us per their market basket. Otherwise they will be completely behind the power curve on"being able" to influence or contain it. So "play things" will get more expensive if we buy on credit. Now on the other hand, you underscore a very valid point, plausible stalling employment if they act too harshly. Raising rates while the employment sags is just as damagingas it puts us into recession. This is a difficult hand the Fed has to play so I see at least 4 1/4 point increases as a minimum next year or a ceiling of 3% which isn't very much.
Think MT is on vacation. I know he would like to weigh in on this one as he sees much higher interest rates on the horizon.
Good morning all! Still think we have a great 6 weeks ahead of us after the FOMC or maybe concurrent with announcement.
My personal feeling is they won't raise rates next week but will raise them .5% at the next meeting. Not that it matters to me, credit free here............:^
Good luck,
M_M
I believe the fed is locked into a .25 rate hike at the next meeting. However the wording on the next fed report should be extremely interesting. Dr Greenspan will be playing theI told you so gamehe has started to play this year.
The yield curve is getting a little crazy. Why get a 10year at 4.12 when you can get a 5 year for 3.52? For the additional five years you only gain .6%. IS THAT WORTH THE RISK??? The closer they get together the more concerned I will get. 2000 we saw this pattern.
Good luck!
Bill
Well I'll be monkey's uncle...........since when does it take 7 days to get the penny in G fund!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:@I wanted my penny mommyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.............waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ......Oh well, missed the boat on that I reckon, I"m 100% F today, but will be making a move to stocks this morning........now which ones................
I'm going to get my penny today !!!!!! You will probably get double that in the F today MM.. G fund is always 5-7 days as far as I know....??:^
I don't recall it ever taking 7 days, guess I should of done more "research", I'm in the research field, you'd think I'd know better..................
It alternates every 5 and 6 day so today the 10 is the 6th day.
smedlap wrote:We are both wrong smed, Friday WAS the 7th day, but I mistakenly thought the G went up every 5 to 6 days, it's actually every 6-7 days. Cost me a penny to learn this lesson. I'll pay a penny to learn something new.It alternates every 5 and 6 day so today the 10 is the 6th day.
Oh, you were wrong twice.........:P
Time to go win my penny back playing poker, have a good day..........
I got my penny x 39587.4923:^and will not get damaged on Monday and Tuesday.
Risk/reward.
Need to feed my lab rat.
Morpheus
MarketTimer wrote:You call your ego "lab rat"...........interesting.I got my penny x 39587.4923:^and will not get damaged on Monday and Tuesday.
Risk/reward.
Need to feed my lab rat.
Morpheus
I like this type of damage. The market can inflict this on me anytime it wants. EAFE up 0.7%, dollar down 0.5% against the euro. :^
Where is MT today? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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