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will the dow rise when interest rates drop today?

Will the DOW jones average go up when interest rates are cut half a percent today at 2pm (EST)

Or was most of the gain already in the anticipation of the announcement?

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  • Danny
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    if this not a -Sell on the news day- ..i will eat my LCD screen.

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    The Swings are partly outsiders (foreign) and johnny-Come-Lately playing the short game including some hard-core fund managers truly buying 100K on the dips AKA the real winners 5 years from now. But this is NOT the time to gamble that the market is finished with shaking out the rug. The best positioned -needed money- Today is money in your hand.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I'd say the Dow will be unaffected and go down a nominal 75 points.

  • 1 decade ago

    The Dow will go down and violatility will continue in the marketplace until we see a clarity and transparency comes into the marketplace.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Not on that fact alone, It will already have been discounted yesterday

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  • 1 decade ago

    this is a good question you should study gpd and econ

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