Slow Fed Tapering Would Send Yields Higher, Schwab’s Jones Says
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Charles Schwab’s Kathy Jones believes yields should be higher to better reflect the growth seen in the U.S. economy, and increasing calls for the Federal Reserve to taper swiftly will only keep yields low for longer.
“My feeling on tapering is the slower they go, the higher the yield,” Jones, chief fixed income strategist at Charles Schwab & Co., said Tuesday in an interview on Bloomberg TV’s “Surveillance” show. “The reason is, of course, because tapering is the first step toward tightening policy and reducing liquidity, slowing growth, aggregate demand and inflation. So if the Fed takes a very slow approach, that allows longer term expectations about inflation growth to stay higher.”