Comments on: Interest Rates – Increase or Flat? http://www.optionpundit.net/market-psychology/interest-rates-increase-or-flat OptionTrading | Powerful OptionTrading Strategies for Consistent Income Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:56:17 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: OptionPundit | Fasten Your Seatbelts, Again http://www.optionpundit.net/market-psychology/interest-rates-increase-or-flat/comment-page-1#comment-25175 OptionPundit | Fasten Your Seatbelts, Again Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:07:31 +0000 http://www.optionpundit.net/?p=1030#comment-25175 [...] except the gold which I was expecting to happen yesterday. It was just a day later. Recall in my post yesterday, i mentioned two scenarios and my bias. Raise rates and economy falls into recession [...] [...] except the gold which I was expecting to happen yesterday. It was just a day later. Recall in my post yesterday, i mentioned two scenarios and my bias. Raise rates and economy falls into recession [...]

]]> By: Steve http://www.optionpundit.net/market-psychology/interest-rates-increase-or-flat/comment-page-1#comment-25123 Steve Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:40:11 +0000 http://www.optionpundit.net/?p=1030#comment-25123 Couldn't agree with you more on the Fed holding things flat. If we focus on just the core rate CPI it shows growth of 0.0% to 0.2% for the last few months - this is hardly inflationary growth. While oil, food, and other commodity prices are booming, a tighetning of the Fed's policy will have little impact of flooding in the midwest and global oil prices. Couldn’t agree with you more on the Fed holding things flat. If we focus on just the core rate CPI it shows growth of 0.0% to 0.2% for the last few months – this is hardly inflationary growth.

While oil, food, and other commodity prices are booming, a tighetning of the Fed’s policy will have little impact of flooding in the midwest and global oil prices.

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