Nine Blueprints for Handling the Stock Market on Thursday
- Investors widely divided on equities' reaction to Fed decision
- Previous rate increases may not be best guide this time
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Equity investors have been anticipating this moment with all the excitement and tension of a prizefight. But bets on the outcome from the Federal Reserve’s rate decision are far more complicated than simply “win or lose” for stocks.
Heading into the central bank’s pronouncement on whether to raise interest rates for the first time since 2006, the only sure thing is how undecided investors are about the fate of the equities market. All depends on what the Federal Open Market Committee decides -- will they or won’t they? -- as well as how policy makers communicate their message.