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Kristoffer Inton
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Fed Hikes Rate Again and Plans to Unwind Balance Sheet; Should Diminish Gold Investment Demand

At its June meeting, the Fed raised the federal-funds target rate 25 basis points to 1% to 1.25%. In total, the central bank has increased the interest rate 50 basis points this year, thus far delivering two of the three increases it had forecast. The rate hike was largely expected, with market-implied probability of 99% the day prior to the announcement. In addition, the Fed announced plans to slowly unwind its nearly $5 trillion balance sheet of bonds built up through quantitative easing. Up t...
Underlying
Yamana Gold Inc.

Yamana Gold is engaged in the exploration, development, extraction, processing and reclamation of gold and other precious metals mining throughout the Americas including Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Colombia. As of Dec 31 2011, total proven reserves for gold, silver, cooper, zinc and molybdenum was 618,709,000 tonnes, 27,316,000 tonnes, 387,660,000 tonnes, 5,004,000 tonnes and 32,000,000 tonnes, respectively.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Kristoffer Inton

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