Fed is unlikely to consider negative interest rates – WSJ
|The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) carried an opinion piece over the weekend, citing that the US Federal Reserve officials are unlikely to consider using negative interest rates.
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“Concluding the tool's clear costs outweigh its uncertain benefits.
The topic resurfaced Thursday after investors in futures markets began betting the Fed's benchmark federal-funds rate would go below zero by year-end, which sent yields on two-year Treasury securities to an all-time low.
Fed leaders see negative rates as a very last resort-and a remote one, still-worrying they would have harmful effects on financial markets and the banking industry
there is little political support for the policy in the US.”
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