{"id":82529,"date":"2015-12-16T05:18:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T10:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=82529"},"modified":"2015-12-16T05:18:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T10:18:57","slug":"markets-upbeat-ahead-of-fed-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2015\/12\/markets-upbeat-ahead-of-fed-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Markets upbeat ahead of Fed decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-1062313790\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">December 16, 2015<\/div><hr style=\"border: none; border-bottom: 3px solid black;\">\r\n<\/div><\/div><p>Article by <a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/contributors\/contributor-profile-forextime\/\">ForexTime<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Asian trade, the Japanese yen was 0.2 per cent weaker at Y121.88 per US dollar, while the euro was 0.1 per cent stronger at $1.0944.<\/p>\n<p>Commodities markets struggled to build on their overnight recovery, with Brent crude, the international benchmark, down 0.5 per cent at $38.26 a barrel, and West Texas Intermediate down 0.6 per cent at $37.13.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s really only one thing on investors\u2019 minds today: the Federal Reserve\u2019s interest rate decision. The market has placed a 81 per cent probability to the US central bank lifting interest rates by 0.25 percentage points, representing the first interest rate move since December 2008 when rates were cut to zero, and the first rate rise since June 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Markets are steaming into today\u2019s US interest rate decision in an upbeat mood, with Asian benchmarks rallying.<\/p>\n<p>Asian stocks have had a strong session, latching onto a positive lead from Wall Street, as the price of oil rebounded on Tuesday and concerns about the high-yield bond market eased.<\/p><div id=\"inves-1232393323\" class=\"inves-in-content inves-entity-placement\"><hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads_header\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size:10px; float:left; color:#666;\">Free Reports:<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads\"> \r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/graph_techs_PD.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t     <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><b><u>Get Our Free Metatrader 4 Indicators<\/u><\/b><\/a> - Put Our Free MetaTrader 4 Custom Indicators on your charts when you join our Weekly Newsletter<\/p><br><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cot_pie_80.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t    <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><b><u>Get our Weekly Commitment of Traders Reports<\/u><\/b><\/a> - See where the biggest traders (Hedge Funds and Commercial Hedgers) are positioned in the futures markets on a weekly basis.<\/p><br><br>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<br><\/div>\n<p>Australia\u2019s S&amp;P\/ASX 200 ended 2.4 per cent higher, while Japan\u2019s Nikkei finished with a 2.6 per cent gain. Hong Kong\u2019s Hang Seng was ahead by 1.9 per cent late in the day, while the Shanghai Composite was 0.5 per cent higher.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54242 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Forex-Time-Logo.png\" alt=\"Forex-Time-Logo\" width=\"262\" height=\"90\" \/><strong>Article by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/contributors\/contributor-profile-forextime\/\">ForexTime<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ForexTime Ltd (FXTM)<\/strong> is an award winning international online forex broker regulated by CySEC 185\/12 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forextime.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.forextime.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article by ForexTime In Asian trade, the Japanese yen was 0.2 per cent weaker at Y121.88 per US dollar, while the euro was 0.1 per cent stronger at $1.0944. Commodities markets struggled to build on their overnight recovery, with Brent crude, the international benchmark, down 0.5 per cent at $38.26 a barrel, and West Texas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82542,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82529\/revisions\/82542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}