The Dow finished marginally higher on Wednesday, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 added 1% and 2%, respectively, and pared earlier losses after the Fed Chair Powell's news conference. Powell was more optimistic about the outlook for inflation, saying: "We can now say for the first time that the disinflationary process has started.", which sent stocks higher. The Federal Reserve raised the target range for the fed funds rate by 25bps to 4.5%-4.75% at today’s meeting and brought the borrowing costs to their highest since 2007. On the corporate front, Snap dipped over 10% after reporting a poor outlook and a wider-than-expected loss, while Peloton surged 26% after its net loss narrowed year over year. Advanced Micro Devices advanced 12.6% on its upbeat earning reports.
Inflation will have a big surprising comeback. Liquidity is coming back to inflate energy and resource prices, the majority of states need to monetize their high debt - disinflation will be transitory.
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The next two years is gonna be brutal. They are having some success squashing demand but ultimately commodities are gonna soar and equities will plummet. And when bitcoin starts fully acting like a commodity, which it already is starting to a little bit, it will become increasingly preferred as a payment method for nation sized commodity trade, since it is the only nonphysical commodity behaving like money.
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They wish they could!
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