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...Investor attention to natural interest rates was further stirred by a recent speech by John Williams, the head of the San Francisco Federal Reserve and an expert on the subject....
...Now, conditions are more difficult, highlighting the conundrum the Fed is in,” said Rick Rieder, a senior BlackRock fund manager....
...William Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings think-tank and former adviser to Bill Clinton, said that the data over the next six to nine months would be critical, but that as things stood Mrs Clinton...
...“It marginally changes the dynamic,” says Rick Rieder, chief investment officer for fixed income at BlackRock. “September is still the base case, but the confidence is somewhat lower.”...
...In recent comments, both Fed chairman Ben Bernanke and New York Fed president William Dudley have endorsed a slowdown of purchases designed to suppress long-term interest rates once the economy has enough...
...But Rick Rieder, chief investment officer for BlackRock says the argument that the Fed’s “dramatic” stimulus will lead to much higher inflation has been overstated....
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