By InTheMoneyStocks on June 23rd, 2010 3:54pm Eastern Time
Since the FOMC released their policy statement at 2:15 pm EST the major stock market indexes have traded all over the map in whipsaw fashion. The Federal Reserve Bank did not say or act unexpectedly. The Federal Reserve Bank left the Fed funds rate (overnight lending rate to the large major banks) unchanged at zero to a quarter point. This is where the Fed funds rate has been since December 2008. They also stated that rates would remain at this level for the foreseeable future which has usually been bullish for equities and gold. In any case expect the whipsaw to continue into the close as the institutional money tries to decipher the news.
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