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Traders are certain that the Fed is going to hike rates at next week's meeting
Futures traders are fully convinced that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates at its March 14-15 meeting. On Thursday, Bloomberg's World Interest Rate Probability reflected a 100% probability of a hike next week. The Federal Open Market Committee is expected to increase its benchmark fed funds rate by 25 basis points to a range of 0.75%-1%. Traders hiked their bets after a report from the ADP Research Institute showed that the US economy added 298,000 private payrolls in February, the highest monthly gain since January 2006. Just a few weeks ago at the beginning of March, the odds for a rate hike this month ... (full story)
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