Precious metals investors have cause for being optimistic after this week’s Federal Reserve policy meeting. With bad news in abeyance in recent weeks, gold has lacked a headline-related catalyst and consequently was stuck in neutral. However, the Fed’s recently stated intention to continue its stimulus efforts indefinitely should give the metal’s price a much-needed boost as the U.S. dollar continues to weaken. As I’ll argue in this report, this is just the news the market was waiting for, and we should see gold - and eventually gold stock prices - responding favorably to it in