Central bank tapering will offer cues to markets on inflation expectations – The National

Central bank tapering will offer cues to markets on inflation expectations – The National

As we enter the final stretch of 2021, markets find themselves at a pivotal juncture.

We have spoken so much over the course of the year about how and, more critically, when central banks, particularly the US Federal Reserve, will kick-start their respective tapers of their massive ongoing quantitative easing programmes.

One of the themes around this was inflation expectations, which up until recently was dubbed as “transitory”.