SPTL - Federal Reserve Watch: Might Fed Stop Reduction In Securities Portfolio?
The word is that Federal Reserve officials are considering slowing down or stopping altogether the efforts to reduce the size of its securities portfolio, something it began in October 2017.
Nick Timiraos writes in the Wall Street Journal, “Federal Reserve officials are near deciding that they will maintain a larger portfolio of Treasury securities than they had expected when they began shrinking those holdings two years ago, putting an end to the central bank’s portfolio wind-down in sight.”
This comes after Federal Reserve officials signaled that they were slowing down the pace of policy rate