
The Federal Reserve announced yesterday that it will conduct an Operation Twist or, in other words, lengthen the average maturities of the Treasuries in its portfolio from 75 to 100 months (8 1/3 years) by the end of 2012 by buying $400 billion of long-term debt (with maturities of 6-30 years) through June, while selling an equal amount of shorter-term securities maturing in 3 years or less.









