Quantitative easing (QE) is a non-traditional monetary policy tool used by central banks, particularly when interest rates are already low and cannot be reduced further. It was popularized during the ...

Financial crises of a sort that may normally hit financial markets once a century struck twice in the past two decades. First there was the 2008–09 financial crisis, then the COVID-19 pandemic. In ...

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“It’s hard not to see the irony in the fact that the Bundesbank yesterday ended up effectively ‘buying’ €2.356bn of the technically ‘failed’ €6bn 10-year German auction. After the last couple of weeks ...

It's been almost two decades since the Federal Reserve, America's central bank, first used quantitative easing (QE), an unconventional monetary policy tool. As Nancy Davis, portfolio manager of the ...

The Federal Reserve continued its interest-rate-raising spree today to help curb inflation. The other thing the Fed has been working on is unwinding its “quantitative easing” program. One listener ...

Following the 2008 financial crisis, central banks in advanced economies implemented a series of large-scale asset purchase programs, often referred to as quantitative easing pro­grams, with the ...

On March 19, 2001, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) embarked on an unprecedented monetary policy experiment, commonly referred to as “quantitative easing,” in an attempt to stimulate the nation’s stagnant ...

One key question about Fed policy is whether quantitative easing works through the portfolio balance channel (i.e. the stock view) or whether it is the pace of purchases that matter (the flow view).