"Pretty high hurdle" to QE3: Fed's Bullard

Fri, 06/22/2012 - 09:43 EDT - Yahoo! Business News

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal Reserve policymakers still see a "pretty high hurdle" before they would unleash a third round of quantitative easing, or QE3, a top Fed official said on Friday. Speaking two days after the U.S. central bank decided to take a more modest policy step to help the flailing economic recovery, St. Louis Fed Bank President James Bullard said the Fed has done "what it can do." "QE3 I think is viewed as still having a pretty high hurdle," Bullard said on Bloomberg TV. ...

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