Should You Sell The FTSE 100 Before The Fed Raises Rates?

VIDEO: One Fool puts the FTSE 100 (INDEXFTSE:UKX) under the spotlight.

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Ray Dalio — founder of Bridgewater Associates and the world’s largest hedge fund — is worried that the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates too soon and send the market sinking. So should you sell the FTSE 100 now, just in case? 

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