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The Federal Reserve Board approved actions by the boards of the New York, St. Louis and Minneapolis Federal Reserve Banks raising the discount rate, also called the primary credit rate, from 1.5% to 1.75%. The change took effect immediately.
A higher discount rate tightens short-term bank funding costs and reinforces the Fed's hawkish stance, supporting the dollar and weighing mildly on commodity prices and feed-buying appetite through financing costs.
federalreserve.govJun 15, 2017After 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.
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.
