A renewed rise in Treasury yields in response to growing expectations of a large US post-election fiscal stimulus would test the Fed’s resolve to keep monetary conditions extremely loose. We suspect it would want to keep yields anchored, “talking” them down, before “walking” them down if that failed. Before considering raising the rate of its purchases, we imagine it would skew them towards longer-dated bonds.
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