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Post-Fed boost for small-cap stocks may be limited

EghtesadOnline: Small-cap stocks benefited from a dovish lining to the U.S. Federal Reserve's decision to raise interest rates this past week, but strategists warn it will take more to make these pricey stocks outperform their larger brethren in the long haul.
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Publish Date:18/March/2017 | 15:42

Wall Street drifts with eyes on Fed; Intel drops

EghtesadOnline: U.S. stocks ended little changed in light volume on Monday, with traders eyeing a Federal Reserve meeting expected to result in an interest rate increase later this week.
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Publish Date:14/March/2017 | 06:29

Wall Street drifts with eyes on Fed; Intel drops

EghtesadOnline: U.S. stocks ended little changed in light volume on Monday, with traders eyeing a Federal Reserve meeting expected to result in an interest rate increase later this week.
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Publish Date:14/March/2017 | 06:29

Fed, in shift, may move to faster pace of rate hikes

EghtesadOnline: The Federal Reserve, which has struggled to stoke inflation since the financial crisis and up until now raised rates less frequently than it and markets expected, may be about to hit the accelerator on rate hikes.
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Publish Date:14/March/2017 | 06:24

Fed, in shift, may move to faster pace of rate hikes

EghtesadOnline: The Federal Reserve, which has struggled to stoke inflation since the financial crisis and up until now raised rates less frequently than it and markets expected, may be about to hit the accelerator on rate hikes.
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Publish Date:14/March/2017 | 06:24

Fed to make sequential hikes until 'something breaks': Gundlach

EghtesadOnline: Jeffrey Gundlach, chief executive officer at DoubleLine Capital, said on Tuesday he expects the Federal Reserve to begin a campaign this month of "old school" sequential interest rate hikes until "something breaks," such as a U.S. recession.
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Publish Date:08/March/2017 | 06:08

Futures rise after Trump speech; banks up on rate talk

EghtesadOnline: U.S. stock index futures were higher on Wednesday as investors assessed President Donald Trump's speech, while bank stocks rose on increased possibility of an interest rate hike this month.
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Publish Date:01/March/2017 | 13:58

Dollar rises, underpinned by higher Treasury yields

EghtesadOnline: The dollar gained on Tuesday, taking its cue from higher U.S. Treasury yields as investors awaited minutes from the Federal Reserve's latest meeting for signals to the pace of interest rate hikes.
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Publish Date:21/February/2017 | 05:36

Gold Isn't Doing in Practice What It Should in Theory, Yet Again

EghtesadOnline: What works for gold in practice rarely works in theory. The last three U.S. interest-rate increases that should, all other things being equal, be bad for the metal have seen prices jump in the months that followed.
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Publish Date:20/February/2017 | 05:02

Scoring the Fed's Decision: Will It Be Wise to Tighten in March?

EghtesadOnline: Now that the outcome of the Federal Reserve’s next meeting has become far less certain, Bloomberg has provided a rundown of what would have to happen for Janet Yellen and company to raise rates on March 15:
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Publish Date:16/February/2017 | 20:16

Apple, banks push Wall Street to all-time high

EghtesadOnline: Major U.S. stock indexes established record highs on Tuesday, led by bank stocks after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said it would be unwise to wait too long to raise interest rates.
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Publish Date:15/February/2017 | 05:26

U.S. insurers sense opportunity in unwanted pension plans

EghtesadOnline: U.S. insurers are buying corporate pension plans at a record clip as rising interest rates and all-time high stock-market values give companies the perfect excuse to offload them.
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Publish Date:14/February/2017 | 08:41

Wall Street stands with two Fed-hike outlook for 2017: Reuters poll

EghtesadOnline: Wall Street's top banks expect just two rate hikes from the Federal Reserve this year and see only modest risk to the U.S. central bank being pressed into a more aggressive pace of monetary policy tightening, a Reuters poll showed on Friday.
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Publish Date:04/February/2017 | 13:44

In sign of more hawkish Fed, Evans nods to three rate hikes

EghtesadOnline: Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans said on Friday the central bank could raise interest rates three times this year, faster than he had expected just a few months ago and in line with the majority of his colleagues.
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Publish Date:07/January/2017 | 15:21