Post FOMC Meeting Effect Tends to Kill S&P 500 Mojo - InvestingChannel

Post FOMC Meeting Effect Tends to Kill S&P 500 Mojo

The Federal Reserve announced that the ‘big bad taper’ will stay in the closet. That’s good news. The Fed announced the same thing on September 18, which led to a three-week correction. The same thing happened in late July.

You know the spiel. When there’s a Federal Reserve meeting on Wednesday, the stock market (NYSEArca: VTI) takes a hiatus until Mr. Bernanke makes his announcement.

There’s a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting about every 45 days or eight times a year.

More often than not the S&P 500 has a positive bias going into the FOMC meeting, but the S&P 500 ETF has lost its mojo after each of the last three FOMC meetings.

The S&P 500 chart below illustrates the S&P’s performance after the last 10 FOMC meetings.

This chart covers an incredibly bullish time period, but it’s interesting to note that – since September 2012 – the S&P 500 dropped below the FOMC meeting high every single time within the next few weeks.

More remarkable than the S&P’s post FOMC performance history is the S&P’s pre FOMC performance history.

An official Federal Reserve study shows that the ‘pre FOMC drift’ (optimism leading up to the FOMC announcement) accounts for all S&P 500 gains over the last two decades.

In other words, pre FOMC gains inflated the S&P 500 to an unbelievable degree. A full analysis (with shocking charts) of the Federal Reserve study is available here:

New York Fed Research Reveals That FOMC Drove S&P XX% Above Fair Value

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