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Bloomberg -- When Bernanke faces Congress tomorrow and Feb. 28, he will be questioned about why long-term bond yields are moving in the opposite direction to the Fed funds rate.

Three years ago, when former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan testified in Congress, he faced a situation that was the complete opposite of what confronts Bernanke: long-term yields were declining as the Fed's benchmark interest rate was rising.

``The broadly unanticipated behavior of world bond markets remains a conundrum,'' Greenspan said in his Feb. 16, 2005, testimony to Congress.