Bernanke’s challenge – preparing markets for policy turn

new york: Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is preparing for a most sensitive task: telling jittery investors who have grown accustomed to the US central bank's ultra-easy monetary policies that things will eventually have to change.

Bernanke appears committed to the Fed's bond-buying stimulus right now. But the unprecedented communications challenge of laying groundwork for a shift in policy, while still assuring investors that rates will continue to stay low, could come in just a few months if the US recovery continues apace.