Federal Reserve Hiking ‘Creates a Meaningful Crisis Somewhere’

  • Deutsche Bank likens tightening to shaking fruit from a tree
  • Says fallout is not obvious, but will come; highlights EM pain

Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve

Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
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For investors surveying the global market map, it helps to get back to basics -- and there are few more fundamental principles than this: When the world’s central bank makes borrowing more expensive, bad stuff is likely to happen.

The Federal Reserve may not be raising interest rates at a lightning pace by historic standards, but it is shifting from a period of unprecedented easing. The result is a form of tightening “we do not fully understand,” according to Deutsche Bank AG.