
After the Fed's June 16 meeting, the dollar rose and the Colombian peso fell 1.25% to about 3,698 per dollar. Fed Chair Jerome Powell said officials had begun discussing tapering bond purchases, and the dot plot pointed to two rate hikes by the end of 2023.
A firmer dollar makes dollar-priced commodities more expensive for non-US buyers and tends to pressure grain and oilseed prices. Emerging-market currencies such as the peso also weaken, which raises the local cost of imported feed.
After 2,356 past bullish macro events, US Dollar (Broad) moved a median +0.2% over 5 sessions (60% higher; middle half -0.3% to +0.7%), and +0.4% over 20.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
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.