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>FOMC, taper talk and the gold price  - Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco.
Two more reasons for no taper before 2014:
Taper just before Xmas? Not bloody likely.
Taper just before the end of the tax year? Never kill profits before you collect the tax revenue.


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Beginning of the headline :There is inevitable speculation that tapering might be announced at the FOMC meeting this Wednesday. It should be noted that this is Ben Bernanke’s swansong, and if tapering is to be announced he would probably go out with falling bond markets, falling equities and a soaring dollar, not to mention disruption of emerging market currencies such as the Indian rupee. For this reason perhaps opinion is odds-against tapering, but it doesn’t stop markets being nervous ahead of the event. Those that th... Read More
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