How the markets will respond to tomorrow’s decision will be dependent upon not only what the Fed does, but also what they say.

Should the Fed go for a mere quarter point loosening, the dollar could rally as prepositioned pessimists are forced to adjust their positions.

The US dollar slowly regained ground against major trading counterparts, as a quiet day of range trading set the stage for tomorrow’s critical Federal Reserve interest rate announcement.

Derek Frey provides weekly market commentary on currencies for the week of September 17.

Currency strategist Boris Schlossberg analyzes the major currencies for the week of September 17.

How predictable was the current turmoil in the market one year ago? On one level, it was not all that hard to see that that there were going to be problems in the subprime mortgage market. But it is one thing to predict a problem, and quite another thing to understand its full implications in the market.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for September 17.

The feds are bailing out the big banks as fast as their buckets allow, even though the rescuers are bound to make the situation worse, just as they always do.

Although traders shrugged off the less-than-impressive retail sales figures, the data is one of the main factors that will drive the Federal Reserve to cut rates next Tuesday.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for September 14.