Ben Bernanke said the Federal Reserve could start slowing the pace of its asset purchases “in the next few meetings” but only if the labour market showed sustained improvement.
The Fed chairman’s remarks came ahead of the release of the US central bank’s minutes from its last meeting, which showed a “number” of officials were ready to start tapering off the Fed’s $85bn-a-month, third round of quantitative easing as early as June.
It provided the clearest picture yet of how the Fed is likely to wind down QE3: starting fairly soon but then ratcheting the rate of purchases up or down in response to changing economic conditions.
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