Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Oil Shock

On Monday, Atlanta Fed boss Dennis Lockhart said that if oil prices continue to climb the Fed will make a new round of asset purchases, in other words it will kick off QE3.

Lockhart “echoed widespread concerns that surging oil prices would put the brakes on a recovery that only just seems to be taking hold,” reports the Wall Street Journal.


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