The widely anticipated completion of the Fed’s purchases under QE3 need not mark the end of the policy’s support for global asset prices. As it happens, QE3 was not much of a boon to emerging markets or commodities – including gold – in the first place. But we do not expect the completion of these purchases to trigger sharp falls in the prices of developed market equities or Treasuries either.
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