Financials: Here’s What Investors Need to Know About the March Fed Meeting
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
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🗓️ 26 March 2018
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates at its latest meeting, but there’s more important information you need to know. In this episode of Industry Focus: Financials, host Michael Douglass and banking specialist Matt Frankel break down the key takeaways and how they could affect your investments.
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| 0:21.6 | Welcome to industry focus the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:26.0 | It's Monday, March 26th, and we're talking about the latest Fed meeting. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm your host Michael, I'm your host Michael Douglas and I'm joined by Matt Frankel. So Matt, as you |
| 0:36.2 | noted in an article and we're using that as part of our discussion today, the fact that the Fed raised rates this last meeting wasn't actually |
| 0:46.2 | the biggest piece of news out of the meeting. |
| 0:50.0 | No, it actually wasn't too surprising at all. |
| 0:52.0 | Their market was already surprising at all. |
| 0:57.6 | The market was already pricing at about a 95% chance that this rate hike would happen. |
| 1:06.1 | And kind of recent tailwind, as platform and other positive economic news has you know made it almost at a certainty so this may as well have actually happened |
| 1:09.7 | before it happened. The good news rather was the kind of the feds forecast. The feds getting a little more |
| 1:18.0 | confident about the economy, I guess we'd say we'll get into the actual numbers in a little bit. |
| 1:22.6 | But defense getting a little more confident about the economy |
| 1:24.8 | and seeing rates in the future going a little higher |
| 1:27.6 | than they had predicted last time. |
| 1:29.6 | Yeah, so this is kind of the big story. |
| 1:31.5 | Yeah, and let's break that down piece by piece. So the Fed |
| 1:35.3 | releases a document that is known as the dot plot four times each year and that |
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