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Yellen Surgery Initially Successful, Rates Rise Stocks Up Big

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Mark Melin
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Janet Yellen did it. Goldman Sachs was correct. We have liftoff!

After the comforting Fed interest rate announcement by the Federal Open Market Committee that it will raise interest rates by 1/4 point for the first time in seven years, the S&P 500 finished trading up a strong 29.66 points.

Yellen finally delivers
After 9 years the Fed finally raised interest rates. Fed Chair Yellen took the historic step after her predecessor, Ben Bernanke, lowered rates to 0% during the depths of the 2008 global financial crisis.

Goldman was correct on December rate rise, while others say "what took so long?"

In a statement today, the FOMC...

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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.