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US bond market feels like ‘coiled spring’ after Fed meeting – The Australian Financial Review
A surge higher in yields would raise borrowing costs for companies and consumers, and could ripple across other asset classes like equities.
Fears of sooner-than-expected interest rate hikes, or tapering of the Feds asset purchases, helped in the weeks leading up to the March 16-17 policy meeting to send yields on longer-dated Treasury yields to their highest in a year.
Rick Rieder, BlackRocks chief investment officer of global fixed income, tweeted on Thursday that the Fed would likely be able to taper asset purchases sooner than most expect: perhaps before the end of the year, which suggests to us that communicating the plan could…
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