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Fed rate hikes

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This "Rising Rate" Play Could Make You a Quick 55%

By , Chief Research Analyst, Money Morning -

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According to Bloomberg Business, people collectively waste an hour a day on Facebook debating everything from Kim Kardashian's hair to the now infamous gold/blue dress.

After last Wednesday, I've got to wonder how much time they're going to blow talking about what Fed Chair Janet Yellen said... or didn't.

At the end of the day it doesn't matter.

I say that because one of the most fundamental investing truisms of all is that "money moves to where it's treated best."

Simply put, a rise in interest rates is a sign that money is going to be treated better. It's a capital attractor, not the deterrent hyperactive day traders think it is...

Federal Open Market Committee Minutes Today Proved One Thing

By , Associate Editor, Money Morning • @JimBach22 -

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The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) minutes today did little to quell confusion over when the U.S. Federal Reserve will raise interest rates.

The expectation is that the Fed will raise rates sometime in the summer. But the direction of Fed monetary policy has become more complicated than simply pegging a rate increase to what has become an arbitrary consensus estimate.

That's because there are so many potential policy directions, and Fed ambiguity makes nothing certain.

Here's how you should read today's latest round of Fed uncertainty.