Fed’s policy actions bode well for risky assets

Even if the Fed’s latest decision to tweak its buying of corporate bonds in the secondary market is hard to justify, given the improvement in market conditions over the past few months, it reinforces our view that the central bank’s actions will be conducive to further gains in the prices of equities.

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