HALISTER1: U.S. ECO PREVIEW: FOMC Policy Decision Due in 5 Minutes

U.S. ECO PREVIEW: FOMC Policy Decision Due in 5 Minutes

(Bloomberg) -- Federal Open Market Committee is widely expected to announce balance-sheet reduction and should leave benchmark interest rate unchanged, with 1%-1.25% as lower and upper bound.
  • Bloomberg will live blog the FOMC rate decision; follow the TOPLive blog here.
  • “A reduction in the Fed’s asset holdings is a tightening of policy via largely untested means, and therefore runs the risk of unforeseen market consequences, despite policy makers’ best efforts to ensure a smooth execution”: Bloomberg Intelligence
  • MORE: Yellen Sees QE as Tool of Future, But Her Successor May Not

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