The Precious Metals Sector and the Fed. . .

Technical analyst Clive Maund reflects on how Federal Reserve statements may affect markets, and explains why he thinks the precious metals markets are due for a correction.

by Clive Maund
The Gold Report

While the Fed is almost powerless these days, as it has succeeded in “painting itself into a corner,” the markets still seem to think that its utterances are important and react, sometimes violently, to its apparent stance, or implied stance. For this reason we have to treat Fed statements as important, even though they really aren’t. Today we have the Fed making pronouncements and the markets can be expected to gyrate around and react as usual.

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