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The PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish (NYSE: UUP), the U.S. Dollar Index tracking exchange traded funds, and the actively managed WisdomTree Bloomberg U.S. Dollar Bullish Fund (NYSE: USDU) are up 3.2 percent and 4.7 percent, respectively, year-to-date. Those gains have been fueled in large...

Next week will be a big one for U.S. markets as the Federal Reserve is due to hold its monthly policy meeting over two days on Wednesday and Thursday. The September meeting is a pivotal one, as investors are 50/50 on whether the bank is planning to raise interest rates this month or hold off in...

For the past year, traders have been trying to get inside the minds of the U.S. central bankers at the Federal Reserve to determine when the bank's much anticipated rate hike will come. The timing of a rate increase has always been ambiguous, but in light of recent market events, predicting when...

On Wednesday, January 28, the U.S. Federal Reserve wrapped up its monthly meeting without making any changes to the nation’s monetary policy. The bank released a statement saying that it would be “patient” in regard to tightening, suggesting that the bank would make a decision...

As testimony continued in a manner one blogger described as a "remarkably slow cadence," incoming Federal Reserve Chairwoman, Janet Yellen, told Congress Tuesday that the central bank remains optimistic on the economy and was determined to retreat from its stimulus program slowly. In prepared...

A report from Reuters early Wednesday morning anticipated a move by the U.S. Federal Reserve to reduce bond buying. The report arose in the context of a quarterly meeting among executives at the Fed. Such a move could begin the much-discussed tapering agenda, the effort to scale back the immense...