"A lot of people had much higher expectations of what the Fed was going to do. Their rolling over their MBS into Treasuries won't do much and the statement confirmed the weakening picture of the economy."
--Michael Reiner, managing director and credit strategist at Société Générale, on last week's U.S. Federal Reserve Bank announcement that led hedge funds to short in CDS.
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