Wall Street’s ever-shifting outlook on the reduction of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet is once again in flux, with a number of banks and researchers now seeing a good chance the central bank may ...
Economists at Deutsche Bank think the Fed will announce a pause in shrinking the balance sheet on March 19, with the program to resume in September. They don’t think QT will stop until March 2026.
An official who manages the Federal Reseve’s monetary-policy implementation said tweaks to the composition of the central bank’s balance sheet could mean the Fed would eventually own relatively more ...
Central bank balance sheets should be efficient and effective, Dallas Federal Reserve President Lorie Logan said, while putting forward ideas of a more neutral portfolio for the Fed and daily ...
Hammack added that, once these issues are resolved, the Fed could employ temporary bond repurchases, also known as repos, to place more liquidity back into the system. Should such a tactic be employed ...
An alternative approach, which the Bank of Italy has adopted, is to compute empirical estimates based on market prices.