Candlesticks wrote:guru267 wrote:This Bernanke fellow just lost me a cool amount... Who knew taper would be good news to Mr Market??
I expected a forward Guidance statement yesterday shock on me!! i also thought tapering was bad news but meeen!!!!!
@Candlesticks
Crucially, the Fed softened the blow by making its forward guidance even more dovish.
"It likely will be appropriate to maintain the current target range for the federal funds rate well past the time that the unemployment rate declines below 6-1/2 percent, especially if projected inflation continues to run below the committee's 2 percent longer-run goal," the Fed statement said.
Alan Ruskin, global head of G10 currency strategy at Deutsche Bank in New York, noted the Fed's forecasts for the funds rate had also been trimmed out to the end of 2016.
"This is a very dovish taper-lite where the Fed has done its utmost to provide an offset with forward guidance," said Ruskin.
"It tends to elevate the importance of the inflation rate in decision making should it be meaningfully undershooting target, which is very constructive for risky assets."
http://www.reuters.com/a...al-idUSL3N0JX41R20131219