Other major central banks in no hurry to follow the Fed

The Fed’s decision to raise interest rates again yesterday does not change the big picture that global monetary policy will remain highly accommodative. We expect policy rates to stay close to zero in the euro-zone and Japan for the next two years, and “global QE” to continue until late 2018.

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