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USD: How The FX Market Will Likely React To the Fed? – BofA

The Federal Reserve is set to leave rates unchanged and publish new forecasts. How will the market move?

Here is their view, courtesy of eFXdata:

Bank of America Global Research discusses its expectations around tomorrow’s FOMC policy meeting.

We expect the Fed to keep rates unchanged at 1.50-1.75% at the December meeting and guide towards a hold in policy. The dots should shift lower by 25bps and show a pause in 2020. The statement likely flags that policy “remains appropriate“,”BofA notes.

“Given key upcoming policy events,  we doubt the FX market will react much to a December FOMC meeting outcome. Rather,  we expect  FX price action will likely continue taking cues from UK election/Brexit risks as well as US-China trade policy developments,  clarity on which we should have as the week draws to  a  conclusion.

Accordingly, we  think  the hurdle for a significant USD reaction on Wednesday is fairly high, though we agree with our colleagues on the rates strategy side that risks seem somewhat episodically skewed toward a hawkish market reaction and accompanying USD strength given the markets dovish view of the Fed in 2020,” BofA adds.  

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Yohay Elam

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Yohay Elam: Founder, Writer and Editor I have been into forex trading for over 5 years, and I share the experience that I have and the knowledge that I've accumulated. After taking a short course about forex. Like many forex traders, I've earned a significant share of my knowledge the hard way. Macroeconomics, the impact of news on the ever-moving currency markets and trading psychology have always fascinated me. Before founding Forex Crunch, I've worked as a programmer in various hi-tech companies. I have a B. Sc. in Computer Science from Ben Gurion University. Given this background, forex software has a relatively bigger share in the posts.