FED selling $95 b in bonds monthly

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April 6 (Reuters) - Federal Reserve officials in March “generally agreed” to cut up to $95 billion a month from the central bank’s asset holdings as another tool in the fight against surging inflation, even as the war in Ukraine tempered the first U.S. interest rate increase.

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After months of debate, policymakers rallied around a plan to as soon as next month reduce the Fed’s holdings of Treasury bonds by up to $60 billion per month and its MBS holdings by up to $35 billion per month, with the amounts phased in over three months or slightly longer, the minutes said.

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