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December 2016 - Page 11 of 25 - Money Morning - Only the News You Can Profit From

Strong Appreciation Of U.S. Dollar After Fed Rate Hike Hits Raw Commodity Sector

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The feature in the marketplace Thursday is a surging U.S. dollar index that soared to a 13-year high overnight. The greenback is the beneficiary of a U.S. interest rate hike on Wednesday that was accompanied by a surprisingly hawkish tone on monetary policy from the Federal Reserve. There is now talk the Fed could raise interest rates up to three times in 2017.

Victims of the sharp appreciation of the U.S. dollar are raw commodity markets that are priced in U.S. dollars on the world markets, including gold

This Stock Offers High-Growth, Low-Stress Protection from Trump's Tweets

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By now we've all seen the "Trump Tweet Effect" in full effect these past weeks, as the president-elect's unfiltered social media messages hit some of Wall Street's favorite stocks, like Boeing, for better… or worse.

Lockheed Martin, for instance, one of our best defense plays, lost $4 billion in value in the aftermath of Trump's tweeted remarks about the F-35 Lightning program.

Frankly, the losses on Lockheed and Boeing, and for that matter the gains on SoftBank, say more about Wall Street traders than about Donald Trump – or the stocks he's talking about.

But the truth is, it's likely we can look forward to this kind of "volatility" from here on out.

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