Bernanke schwant wohl, dass weiteres QE zu einer "Fahnenstange" führt, die - wie bei den Rohstoffen in 2008 - anschließend brutal in sich zusammenfallen könnte. Daher bereits gestern ein leichtes "Jaw-boning" (# 075).
Dieses "Luft-rausnehmen" (= QE-Exit "erwähnen" bzw. Strategie dafür vorstellen) ist darauf ausgerichtet, die Märkte mittel- bis langfristig in den (mühsam) herbeigepumpten Höhen-Regionen zu halten (Fahnenstangen würden stattdessen schnell kollabieren...).
May 10, 2013, 7:18 p.m. EDT
Fed maps exit from stimulusBy Jon Hilsenrath
Federal Reserve officials have mapped out a
strategy for winding down an unprecedented $85 billion-a-month bond-buying program meant to spur the economy -- an effort to preserve flexibility and manage highly unpredictable market expectations.
Officials say they plan to reduce the amount of bonds they buy in careful and potentially halting steps [das ist im Prinzip das Äquivalent zu früheren Leitzinserhöhungen, z. B. ab 2003/2004], varying their purchases as their confidence about the job market and inflation evolves.
The timing on when to start is still being debated. [Damit ist alles offen gelassen = Konzept für Seitwärtsbewegung auf hohem Niveau].
The Fed’s strategy for how and when to wind down the program is of intense interest in financial markets. While the strategy being debated leaves the Fed plenty of flexibility,
it might not be the clear and steady path markets expect based on past experience.
Officials are focusing on clarifying the strategy so markets don’t overreact about their next moves. For example, officials want to avoid creating expectations that their retreat will be a steady, uniform process like their approach from 2003 to 2006, when they raised short-term interest rates in a series of quarter-percentage-point increments over 17 straight policy meetings. [Betonung liegt dabei auf "steady". Es soll also - anders als in der Leitzinserhöhungsphase ab 2003/2004 - keine "vorhersagbare" bzw. kontinuierliche Geldverknappung geben, sondern eher eine an der jeweiligen Makro-Lage orientierte Adhoc-Strategie.]
Stocks and bond markets have taken off since the Fed announced in September that it would ramp up the bond-buying program, and major indexes closed at another record Friday. An abrupt or surprising end to it could send stocks and bonds in the other direction, but a delayed end could allow markets to overheat. And some officials feel they’ve ended other programs too soon and don’t want to repeat the mistake.
www.marketwatch.com/story/...-exit-from-stimulus-2013-05-10-191031815