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US stocks fell in volatile trading while the dollar pared losses after the Fed raised its benchmark rate by a quarter point. The Fed also announced it would begin reducing its roughly $4.5 trillion balance sheet this year.
Traders doubted the central bank could deliver further hikes given weak inflation.
The balance sheet plan and the rate hike shape the dollar and financing conditions, and doubts about further tightening limit dollar strength for dollar-priced commodities.
financialpost.comReutersJun 14, 2017After 359 past neutral macro events, US Dollar (Broad) moved a median -0.0% over 5 sessions (49% higher; middle half -0.4% to +0.4%), and -0.1% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
