It was all about wording. They used the term 'considerable time' last meeting regarding when they will raise rates. This time they said they have to be patient when it comes to raising rates.
Wall street looks to the FED for hope, to try to interpret what the FED thinks. Word games. But wall street gained overnight as they interpreted that nothing has changed. The FED replaced 'considerable time' with 'patience' and stocks advance. Imagine siphoning positivity from that.
It looks like the target of rates being raised in June next year has just been pushed back till end of 2015, and come middle 2015 I am sure it will be pushed back further to early 2016 and so on an so forth. Good news for gold.
"The game has really changed in terms of inflation," Jeff Kravetz, the Phoenix-based regional investment director at US Bank's Private Client Reserve, said by phone. "There's heightened uncertainty in international markets. The drop in oil prices has kept the lid on inflation. The Fed has to wait to see how these two factors play out. That's why they retained dovish language."