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How Fed Decisions Move Stocks, Bonds, and Currencies

Macro and the Federal Reserve • Beginner Investing • 8 min

A single Fed rate decision ripples through stocks, bonds, and currencies simultaneously, through three related but genuinely distinct mechanisms — which is exactly why "the Fed" dominates financial headlines the way it does. For stocks, higher rates work against valuations two ways at once: they make a company's future profits worth less in today's dollars (a higher "discount rate" in any valuation model), and they…

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