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Bloomberg Surveillance · Monday, July 6, 2026

Federal Reserve's Shift to Balance Sheet Contraction Signals End to Multiple Expansion

Andrew Slimon of Morgan Stanley interprets the new Federal Reserve chair's actions as signaling an end to easy monetary policy, specifically the contraction of the balance sheet. This shift means less liquidity in the market, which Slimon believes will prevent further multiple expansion and could even lead to contraction, also supporting a stronger dollar and lower gold prices.

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What I take away from my little whirldpoll is that multiples aren't going up. And the reason I say that is that what I hear is no more quantitative easy, no more flooding the market. You know, we're not going to buy as much. We're not going to expand the balanceet. We're going to contract the balancing and that means less liquidity. Less liquidity equals no more pee expansion, potentially pee contraction.
Andrew Slimon
So that's you know, that's why when I said twenty times, all the market's trading a little higher than twenty times, So I think I just don't see a market that can move higher on evaluation.
Andrew Slimon
The other thing I think is I think it's bullesh for the dollar, and that's one of the reason why the gold has sold off, is it's it's. A dollar bull move.
Andrew Slimon
Heard on Bloomberg Surveillance — “Tech Rises as Iran War Looms Over NATO Summit, published Monday, July 6, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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