Central Banks Lose Bond-Market Credibility as Woes Mount
- Traders' inflation outlook falls toward financial-crisis lows
- `Lack of faith in monetary policy,' according to State Street
Is a 2015 Fed Rate Hike Off the Table?
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More and more, bond traders are drawing the same conclusion: central bankers globally are coming up short in their attempts to combat the world’s economic woes.
Even after hundreds of interest-rate cuts and trillions of dollars in quantitative easing, the bond market’s outlook for inflation worldwide is approaching lows last seen during the financial crisis. In the U.S., Europe, U.K., and Japan, those expectations are now weaker than they were before their respective central banks began their last rounds of bond buying.