Don’t Count on Fed to Rescue Economy: Here’s Why

by ForexCycle.com | November 8, 2024 3:05 am
By Elliott Wave International The Fed’s September lowering of the fed funds rate was greeted with widespread celebration on Wall Street. Yet, history shows that such moves by the Fed don’t always translate into a glowing economy....

The Fed Leads and the Market Follows? It’s a Big Fat MYTH

by ForexCycle.com | June 6, 2024 12:05 pm
By Murray Gunn | Head of Global Research, Elliott Wave International We help investors by analyzing what really drives the markets. Along the way, we often uncover a market myth, something most investors believe moves the markets, but...

Major Fed Myth: Debunked

by ForexCycle.com | December 30, 2022 3:28 am
By Elliott Wave International The days of near-zero interest rates are long gone — at least for now. As we look back on 2022, we know that it’s been a year of rising interest rates, and many...

Was It Really the Fed That Sent Stock Prices Tumbling?

by ForexCycle.com | September 7, 2022 1:43 pm
By Elliott Wave International Elliott Wave International has mentioned time and again that the mainstream financial media nearly always mentions a news development as the reason for a given day’s stock market action. More than that, we’ve...

Does the Fed Really Determine the Trend of Interest Rates?

by ForexCycle.com | February 10, 2022 2:51 am
By Elliott Wave International Forbes magazine summed up the Fed’s January statement this way (Jan. 26): The federal funds rate remains on hold at zero to 0.25% for now, bond purchases should end in March — and...

What Drives Gold Prices? (Don’t Say “the Fed!”)

by ForexCycle.com | June 9, 2021 1:52 am
By Elliott Wave International Excerpted from Elliott Wave International’s new FREE report “Gold Investor’s Survival Guide: 5 Principles That Help You Stay Ahead of Price Turns.” There is a glaring hole in the popular understanding of what...

Worried About the Fed? Don’t Be — Here’s Why

by ForexCycle.com | July 13, 2019 6:42 am
By Elliott Wave International Achieving and maintaining success as a stock market investor is a tall order. You, like many others, probably watch financial TV networks, read analysis and talk to fellow investors, trying to understand what’s...

Fed’s Policy U-Turn Deters Dollar Bulls – US Dollar Weakness Ahead

by elliottwave-forecast.com | March 21, 2019 8:29 pm
After repeated rebuke by President Trump, the Fed has completely capitulated. Following the two-day meeting, the Fed has scaled back their projected interest rates rise to zero this year. This reflects the concern about slowing economic growth,...

Preparing for Quantitative Tightening

by elliottwave-forecast.com | June 13, 2017 4:03 pm
The Fed will soon embark in an uncharted water of Quantitative Tightening (QT). In the aftermath of 2008 global credit crisis, the world central banks went into the biggest experiment in monetary policy called Quantitative Easing (QE)....

US Dollar Index: Elliott Wave Forecasting the Decline

by elliottwave-forecast.com | March 31, 2017 9:02 am
One of the most popular consensus in 2017 among the analysts is a stronger U.S. Dollar due to the Fed in rate hiking cycle and also Donald Trump promising infrastructure spending, tax reform, which are all supposedly...