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Fed Rate Hikes Are Off The Radar For A Reason

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Mark Melin
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Market participants are no longer focusing one-time obsessive game of watching for hints of Fed rate hikes to come. Those central bank bread crumbs left on the trail, which was previously the focus of Wall Street analysis ad nausea, is now, with an FOMC meeting approaching this week, virtually nonexistent. Next Wednesday's Federal Open Market Committee meeting will likely come and go with not much more than a yawn. There is a reason for this, Capital Economics notes. Fed watchers around the world will engage in a game of wait and see what emerges from the Trump administration in...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.