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Weekly Market Perspectives

Weekly Market Perspectives This week’s Market Perspectives from our Investment Strategy team. We review the past week’s capital market returns and economic developments.

What does the Federal Reserve mean when it talks about tapering?

What does the Federal Reserve mean when it talks about tapering? In response to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve cut short-term interest rates to zero on March 15, 2020 and restarted its large-scale asset purchases (more commonly known as quantitative easing, or QE). Since July 2020, the Fed has been buying $80 billion of Treasury...