Treasuries Tread Uncertain Path Amid Fed’s Bond Runoff Plan
- Faster process than 2017-19 to tighten financial conditions
- Powell has cited uncertain effect from quantitative tightening
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The Treasuries market is girding for potential disruptions from the next and trickiest stage of policy makers’ tightening campaign: the shrinking of an $8.5 trillion bond portfolio.
Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s May policy meeting revealed “several” policy makers saw risk of “unanticipated effects” on markets from the US central bank’s plans to let billions of dollars worth of bonds to mature each month without replacing them.