#PowellRemarks
The Fed slowed the pace of its balance-sheet runoff at its March policy meeting, a move that can work to lower long-term bond yields and led some watchers of the central bank to speculate that policymakers were worried about the amount of liquidity available in the market.
That wasn’t the case, Powell said on Wednesday. “We think reserves are still abundant, " he said. “We don’t think we’re close to a point where we would stop” scaling back the bank’s balance sheet by choosing not to reinvest the money as existing bondholdings mature.