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The Federal Reserve voted to raise the benchmark federal funds rate by 50 basis points, to a target range of 4.25–4.5 percent.

The December Federal Open Market Committee meeting, combined with the release of inflation data, "will test the good cheer currently prevailing in the bond market," said MSCI Research strategists Andy Sparks, Tamas Hanis and Edina Szirma.

On Wednesday, the Open Market Operations Committee (FOMC) will hold its regular meeting, which will set the pace of interest rate hikes for another five weeks to bring inflation under control.

The BSE Sensex opened at 61,770 and almost fell 500 points in the early hour of trading, but it regained some of the lost ground and currently trading between the range of 62,100 to 62,300, while Nifty-50 opened at 18,402 and dipped 100 points in the early hour but it also trimmed the losses and it is currently trading close to 18,500 mark

Rate at 5 and by sort of the end of next year, its going to start cutting because itll have inflation under control. but the fact is that if you look at even the fomc minutes, or you know, theres a footnote on page 6 that the staff basically said, oh, the are risks are on the down side. and one way you can see that is you can back out from futures and options data what the probability -- probability distribution is a year from now. and if you look at that the, about a third of the mass is above ...

Investors will be greeted Monday with a new-issue calendar estimated at $3.214 billion, the majority of which is a nearly $1.9 billion private activity P3 bond deal from Pennsylvania.

Spot gold fell 0.2% to $1,783.50 per ounce in early trade, while US gold futures were down 0.2% to $1,795.10

MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan is up 0.19%, but Japan’s Nikkei falls to near one-month low

Indian benchmark indices continue to tumble as investors wait for the outcome of the MPC meeting that began on 5th December and will be concluded on 7th December. BSE Sensex continues to trade 250-300 points lower after opening at 62,395 points and NSE Nifty-50 also remains well below the 18,700 mark after opening at 18,600 points.

The benchmark BSE Sensex opened at 62,865 and currently trading at 62,611 points, down 270 points or trading at 0.41% lower and Nifty-50 of NSE also opened below 19,000 mark and currently trading at 18,625 points, down 70 points or trading at 0.39% lower.