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Trading Strategies: 8 Stocks to Buy If the Fed Keeps Raising Rates

April 6, 2017

Via: TheStreet

The idea when I set out to write this piece was to advise people how to tackle a rising interest rate environment as we proceed through April. The Federal Reserve did its part by raising the Fed funds rate on March 15, but the bond market? Well, that’s another story.

Yields initially collapsed rather than rising in response to the Fed’s official statement, which came off far more dovish than expected. Markets were actually somewhat relieved that most folks at the Fed were only looking to raise rates three times this year instead of four, and that no attempt was made at all to narrow the central bank’s balance sheet.

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