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Ahead of the Curve provides analysis and insight into today's global financial markets. The latest news and views from global stock, bond, commodity, and FOREX markets are discussed. Rajveer Rawlin is a PhD and received his MBA in finance from the Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales, UK. He is an avid market watcher, having followed capital markets in the US and India since 1993. His research interests include capital markets, banking, investment analysis, and portfolio management, and he has over 20 years of experience in the above areas, covering the US and Indian markets. He has several publications in the above areas. He currently teaches business and management students at CHRIST University. The views expressed here are his own and should not be construed as advice to buy or sell securities.

Tuesday, 15 December 2015

Trading Views for a Dovish Fed

The Fed is likely to be highly dovish in its rate announcement today. Some big moves are likely as the token rate hike gets priced in. Here are some short terms trend to consider:

1) The Dollar:

Attempts will be made to talk the dollar down which has been killing multi national profits, looking for some short term dollar weakness:
EUR/USD (EURUSD=X)

2) Counter trend up move in gold if the Dollar weakens:

3) Counter trend up move in Oil if the Dollar weakens:

4) The S&P 500 probably bounces to resistance near 1920:

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My Asset Allocation Strategy (Indian Market)

Cash - 40%
Bonds - 20%
Fixed deposit - 20%
Gold - 5%
Stocks - 10% ( Majority of this in dividend funds)
Other Asset Classes - 5%

My belief is that stocks are relatively overvalued compared to bonds and attractive buying opportunities can come along after 1-2 years. In a deflationary scenario no asset class does well other than U.S bonds, the U.S dollar and the Japanese yen, so better to be safe than sorry with high quality government bonds and fixed deposits. Cash is the king always. Of course this varies with the person's age.