By Prieur du Plessis, on September 27th, 2009 posted in: Investment, Markets, Money 4 people had their say - chime in!

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After hitting its best levels of the year on Wednesday ahead of the FOMC communiqué, the S&P 500 Index ran into heavy weather on the realization that the Fed could start scaling back on emergency support of the economy. In addition to global stock markets declining, risky assets such as commodities, oil, gold and other precious metals all sold off as pundits worried about the winding down of quantitative easing puncturing the “liquidity rally”. Read all about this and the implications for financial markets in the weekly “Words from the Wise” review. [...]