Will the Fed’s monetary panel be Santa or the Grinch?

By Steve Sosnick, Chief Strategist at Interactive Brokers

Steve Sosnick, Interactive Brokers’ chief strategist, discusses the market’s activity in terms of hedging and the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the monetary policymaking arm of the US Federal Reserve.

Investors are somewhat anxious about the inflation outlook. Meanwhile, the breadth of the market leadership is narrowing.

What will this mean for Fed policy?

This post first appeared on December 14 on the Traders’ Insight blog.

Photo Credit: Lisa Zins via Flickr Creative Commons

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