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The Federal Reserve held its benchmark rate at 1.50%-1.75% and announced $425 billion in new liquidity via repo operations, with a pledge to buy short-term Treasuries if financing pressures require it. An analyst argues this points to dollar weakness in the first half of 2020.
Expanded Fed liquidity and expected dollar weakness would tend to support dollar-priced commodities, though the effect depends on how durable the dollar decline proves.
gold-eagle.comChristopher Aaron Chief Analyst, Founder @ iGold AdvisorDec 17, 2019After 1,637 past bearish macro events, US Dollar (Broad) moved a median -0.2% over 5 sessions (39% higher; middle half -0.6% to +0.3%), and -0.2% 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.
