Fed Seen Tapering QE in $10 Billion Steps in Next Seven Meetings
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The Federal Reserve is likely to reduce its bond purchases in $10 billion increments over the next seven meetings before ending the program in December 2014, economists said.
The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of 41 economists matches the $10 billion reduction announced yesterday as the Fed began to unwind the unprecedented stimulus that has defined Ben S. Bernanke’s chairmanship.