The crystal balls are all so clear on the internet.
They're not selling bonds. They're doing the smart and obvious thing, letting bonds mature out without replacing them with new purchases.
Bottom line: No one can tell you with any certainty how this will play out. As always, there are far too many conflicting economic currents.
The beginning of so-called quantitative tightening commences on Wednesday as the Fed lets bonds mature off its $9T balance sheet without replacement
seekingalpha.com
Snapshot: Yields should technically move higher in response to QT, while the curve should steepen, due to a tightening of financial conditions and money supply. However, the direction of yields is also highly dependent on other economic factors, like expectations of Fed interest rate hikes, the U.S. economic outlook or greater regulatory constraints. Other feel that any outsized impacts will rather show up in money markets or financial market plumbing, or that effects on liquidity are at least a few quarters away.
"It's going to be very gradual... It's just too soon to know what if anything the impact is going to be from QT," said Subadra Rajappa, head of U.S. rates strategy at Societe Generale. "I don’t think we know the impacts of QT just yet, especially since we haven't done this slimming down of the balance sheet much in history," added Dan Eye, chief investment officer at Fort Pitt Capital Group. "But it's a safe bet to say that it pulls liquidity out of the market, and it's reasonable to think that as liquidity is pulled out, it affects multiples in valuations to some degree."