Thursday, September 13, 2012

Fed Announces New All-time Highs for Equities and Higher Prices for Precious Metals.

DJIA up 155 to 13,488, S&P up 18. Gold adds $38.90 to $1,772.60, silver up 4.28% to $34.66.
From FT Alphaville:
UPDATES:
– Well, open-ended QE is what we anticipated, and open-ended QE is what we got — specifically an additional $40bn of monthly agency MBS purchases. And the purchases were indeed tied to economic outcomes, though in vague terms:
“If the outlook for the labor market does not improve substantially, the Committee will continue its purchases of agency mortgage-backed securities, undertake additional asset purchases, and employ its other policy tools as appropriate until such improvement is achieved in a context of price stability.”
Expect some questions about the meaning of “substantially” in the presser.
– The language guidance was indeed pushed back to mid-2015, not late-2015 as we thought was possible. In addition, these two parts of the statement are more forceful than in the past:...
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