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How to Play the Fed Taper-Talk Game

Recent hints of possible relaxing of the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program has roiled global and domestic markets recently, and investors need to get their portfolios prepared for a possible pulling of the punch bowl.After years of flooding the market with money from its massive bond-buying program and keeping interest rates at record lows, many experts expect the central bank to start tapering its efforts and start reducing its balance sheet amid signs of a slowly recovering economy.While most experts don't expect policymakers to announce any QE narrowing at  Wednesday's two-day meeting conclusion, Fed chief Ben Bernanke told Congress in his semiannual testimony in May the Fed would start considering it over the next several meetings. Wall Street didn't like that idea of losing its backstop and the stock has been more volatile ever since. Treasury yields crept above 2% for the first time since March."I would expect tapering to come in October -- that gives Bernanke enough ...

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