The Fed meets expectations and keeps rates at 0.25% -0.5% – Investing.com Spain

Investing.com.- The Federal Reserve (Fed) decided, said today the company at the end of the two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC).

in its last meeting of 2015, back in December, the central bank decided to take a step forward and put an end to almost a decade of money at zero cost with a rise of one quarter point hairpin benchmark interest for the greenback.

this year, the plans of the US monetary authority passed, in principle, apply up to four further increases in lending rates, but a turbulent start to the year, with great turmoil in the markets and a particularly ominous scenario for prices and emerging markets have made the bank of US banks rethink its monetary policy decisions for this course.

Yellen is the key

in fact, beyond this decision, granted almost by markets, the main course of the day will be at 19.30, local time in Spain, where investors can their five senses to try to extract some clue regarding the pace at which the Fed now plans to keep raising interest rates .

There are many speculations, but recent polls and surveys among industry professionals suggest that June will be the date specified in the Federal Reserve a new step forward and increase another quarter point the official price of money in the country of Uncle Sam.

Draghi rebate, Kuroda keeps

the adopted today by the Fed is the third decision regarding . to interest rates published by a major central bank in the last seven days

last week was the governor of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi, who did jump the markets through the air; first with the decision of interest rates for the euro zone, and then the new rate cuts in the future.

Meanwhile, in the early hours of Monday, his counterpart at the Bank of Japan (BoJ), Haruhiko Kuroda, defended the decision of the Japanese entity.

in both cases, the situation of local economies is clearly different from the US, which has recently seen much stronger figures, . both employment levels and consumer

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