Fed won’t over-react to rising real yields

If real yields continue to rise we could see the Fed shifting the composition of its monthly asset purchases to focus more on the long end of the curve, but we doubt that it would be willing to adopt an explicit yield control target, particularly not as far along the curve as 10 years out.

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