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Stock market seems to like the news. S&P has shot up about 1.6%.

• simulate-me 4y ago
  The schedule of rate increases had already been announced. Given that a less aggressive schedule was unlikely given inflation, there was a possibility of a more aggressive schedule. I think the market is reacting to that.
• dragonwriter 4y ago
  The 50bp bump was telegraphed and the forward guidance seems to be consistent with what the Fed has been saying for a while, so I’d be skeptical (as, frankly, I usually am) of the usual simple causal narrative between the concrete event and the same day market movement.