Chances of QE3 This Week Are 50-50: Olson

The stock market may have already priced in additional quantitative easing whose chances are mixed, former Federal Reserve Governor Mark Olson told CNBC on Monday.

“I would put it at no better than 50-50 for a couple of reasons,” he said on “Fast Money.”

Olson said those reasons included an estimated half-trillion-dollar investment for QE3, as well as last week’s jobs report, which was in line with what the Fed expected.

“What the Fed doesn’t want to get into position of, is having to react because of market anticipation,” he said.

What that could mean for stocks is uncertain, Olson added.

“The problem is that the market may have already priced in what the Fed might do, and that’s someplace that the Fed does not like to be,” he said. “They do not like to have to respond because the market moved. The Fed doesn’t look at the market move, they look at the underlying economy — a very fundamental difference.”

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