por admin » Mié Abr 10, 2013 8:19 am
Las minutas del Fed muestran que los miembros del Fed debatieron intensamente sobre cuando se retiraria el estimulo monetario, o sea cuando disminuirian la compra de los $85 billones de bonos, mencionaron hacerlo enn el segundo semestre.
Todo dependera de como se comporte la economia. Dijeron que la economia estaba mejorando pero mostraron temores que el aumento de impuestos y los recortes fiscales afectarian el crecimiento.
U.S. NEWS
Updated April 10, 2013, 9:12 a.m. ET
Fed Minutes, Released Early, Show Easy-Money Debate
By JON HILSENRATH And JEFFREY SPARSHOTT
WASHINGTON—Federal Reserve officials actively engaged in a debate about whether to begin winding down an $85 billion per month bond-buying program after midyear, minutes of the Fed's last policy meeting show.
The minutes, which were released early Wednesday rather than in the afternoon as usual, showed that "all but a few" Fed officials agreed at the central bank's last policy meeting that they wanted to keep the program going "at least through midyear." But after that, officials had a wide range of views about how they might proceed.
The meeting was held March 19 and 20.
Much depends on how the economy performs. Fed officials found the economy was performing better than expected when they met, but were worried that rising federal taxes and spending reductions could constrain growth. Since the March meeting, economic data have been soft. The Labor Department reported Friday that payroll employment expanded by just 88,000 in March, the worst performance since June.
The minutes were released early Wednesday because they were inadvertently sent a day early to Congress and some trade groups, the Fed said. "The individuals on the distribution list—primarily congressional employees and employees of trade organizations—received the minutes shortly after 2 pm Tuesday." They are normally released at 2 p.m., rather than 9 a.m., three weeks following Fed policy meetings.
Some at the March meeting felt the Fed would be able to begin tapering the program down around midyear. Others saw the Fed continuing through September before tapering down, and a few wanted to keep the program going at its current pace through 2013 and into 2014. Some also held out the possibility of increasing the program if the economic outlook deteriorates.