An Aggressive Fed

“You can’t think of a worse environment than where we are right now for financial assets,” billionaire Paul Tudor Jones said in an interview with CNBC Inflation is high, the stock market is underperforming, and economic growth is slow. 
There's a Coming Rate Hike to be announced tomorrow and there's still more coming, Half point rate hike (0.5%) and is set to get more aggressive. The Fed seems to be fully focused on controlling inflation with these rate hikes. However, that might not actually happen, Inflation is currently at a 40 year high and it doesn't seem to be slowing anytime soon and even if it does slow down it might happen slower than the speed at which the Fed is rising rates meaning the situation might get worse overtime and investors will just have to hold onto their funds and buy stocks when they are lower.

Commodities such as Gold & Oil may see a spike in prices since theoretically Gold price is supposed to dip as interest rates rise due to there being more lucrative investments brought up by the rising rates but in this case pessimism is high and it will take a long time before the rate hike changes the current stock market down trend thus Gold is expected to have higher demand thus pushing the prices up. 

Oil on the other hand is also expected to see a surge in demand as well as a surge in price since inflation is still high and no signs of reducing and consumer spending is also high therefore it's a buy in my opinion.

Stay alert in my next post I'll upload my setup and explain the technical bit of it. 

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