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🗓️ 21 March 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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0:00.0 | Fast money starts right now. Live from the NASDAQ market side overlooking New York's |
0:05.6 | snowy Times Square. I'm Melissa Lear. Traders on the desk are Pete Nigerian, |
0:09.7 | Steve Grasso, David Seaberg and Tim Seymour tonight on fast. |
0:12.9 | The Facebook fallout rages on, but the stock snapping its losing streak ending the day in the green |
0:17.8 | and one of the traders bought the social media giant today. |
0:20.9 | He will explain why he thinks the bottom is in. |
0:23.0 | Plus, the winner of the Facebook fallout, it might be blockchain. |
0:26.0 | A top analyst at RBC will explain why the data scandal could be the next big catalyst for the technology |
0:31.0 | and what it might mean for big tech stocks. |
0:33.4 | But first, we start with the Federal Reserve decision to raise rates. |
0:36.4 | Bed chair Jerome Powell towing the line, not too hawkish, not too dovish. |
0:40.4 | Let's get to our own Steve Leesman down in DC for more. |
0:43.5 | See what was your take? |
0:45.4 | You know first of all let's tell people exactly what happened. |
0:48.6 | It was the first press conference for Fed Chairman Jay Powell and the Fed hiked rates as expected by a quarter point. |
0:54.8 | Here's the new range folks 1.5 to 1 3 quarters percent. The Fed did also signal |
0:59.4 | more gradual rate hikes ahead. Now it also up the outlook for growth and lowered the |
1:04.8 | forecast for unemployment down a 3.6% from the current 4.1% next year. |
1:09.6 | Also raise the outlook for interest rates. Here you go, not this year. |
1:13.5 | One forecast short from a Fed official for four hikes this year, |
1:17.2 | so remains at three, but up the outlook to 2.9% next year, |
1:20.6 | and a strong 3.4% in 2020 but it did not move the inflation barometer |
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