{"id":35859,"date":"2015-12-16T04:23:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T09:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=35859"},"modified":"2016-09-20T16:09:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T20:09:33","slug":"dhunplugged-296-market-in-a-funk-over-junk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/16\/dhunplugged-296-market-in-a-funk-over-junk\/","title":{"rendered":"DHUnplugged #296: Market In a Funk Over Junk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The countdown until the Fed rate decision is getting down to the last few hours. Markets seem &#8220;prepared&#8221; for a hike and then some very dovish commentary to follow. Will this cause the U.S. dollar to rally or will we see an unwind of risk assets?<\/p>\n<p>On the table for discussion is the recent and massive sell-off in the junk bond sector. If history is any guide, this could be the tip of the iceberg for market volatility. Confusion remains along with some interesting investment opportunities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dh296.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5511\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dh296.jpg\" alt=\"dh296\" width=\"177\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">See this week\u2018s stock picks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhunplugged.com\/dhunplugged-weekly-stock-picks\/\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/THErealDVORAK\"><strong>Follow John C. Dvorak on Twitter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewhorowitz\"><strong>Follow Andrew Horowitz on Twitter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The countdown until the Fed rate decision is getting down to the last few hours. Markets seem &#8220;prepared&#8221; for a hike and then some very dovish commentary to follow. Will this cause the U.S. dollar to rally or will we see an unwind of risk assets?<\/p>\n<p>On the table for discussion is the recent and massive sell-off in the junk bond sector. If history is any guide, this could be the tip of the iceberg for market volatility. Confusion remains along with some interesting investment opportunities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhunplugged.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dh296.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5511\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">See this week\u201d\u2122s stock picks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhunplugged.com\/dhunplugged-weekly-stock-picks\/\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/THErealDVORAK\"><strong>Follow John C. Dvorak on Twitter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewhorowitz\"><strong>Follow Andrew Horowitz on Twitter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[272,12,28],"tags":[271],"class_list":["post-35859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dh-unplugged-media","category-markets","category-media","tag-dh-unplugged","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}