Contrary to the speculation over the past few days, regardless of whether Lawrence Summers, Janet Yellen or a third candidate gets the nod, we suspect that the outlook for US monetary policy would remain largely unchanged from what it is now. The bottom line is that short-term interest rates will remain at near-zero for at least another 18 months and rise only gradually after that.
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