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    US quantitative easing

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    • Sunday, 19 March, 2023
      US inflation
      Economists think Fed will keep raising rates despite bank turmoil

      Survey comes as traders scale back expectations of tightening amid worries about financial instability

    • Monday, 13 March, 2023
      Silicon Valley Bank
      SVB collapse forces rethink on interest rates and hits bank stocks

      Two-year US Treasury bond yields record biggest one-day drop since 1987

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      Gillian Tett
      US investors need to keep a much closer eye on everywhere else

      Obsessively watching the Fed is one thing but Tokyo and Beijing matter too

    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      Markets InsightAnne Walsh
      Investors should not expect much relief from volatility

      Transition to world of quantitative tightening will lead to reduced liquidity, capital rationing and persistent swings in asset prices

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      Global Economy
      The pros and cons of QE — part ∞

      Was QE4 an expensive nothingburger?

    • Wednesday, 8 February, 2023
      UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
      Is everything the Fed’s fault? Premium content

      And more on loosening financial conditions

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      Gillian Tett
      The Fed finds itself in a nasty hole

      America’s central bank should have been quicker to tackle the risks of its post-crisis policies

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      Federal Reserve
      Investors pump trillions of dollars a day into ultra-safe Fed facility

      Volatility in debt market prompts US money market funds to park cash in ‘reverse repo’

    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
      RIP ample reserve era?

      US banks are hitting the discount window again

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
      Will QT end early? Premium content

      Liquidity in all the wrong places

    • Wednesday, 28 December, 2022
      Markets InsightMichael Howell
      Is QE returning by stealth?

      While the Fed is reducing its bond-buying programme, it is still providing stimulus via other means

    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
      Peter Orszag
      Central banks should beware the dangers of over-tightening

      Sometimes the best course of action is to wait and see

    • Wednesday, 14 September, 2022
      Federal Reserve
      Fed’s faster ‘quantitative tightening’ adds to strain on bond market

      Accelerated balance sheet reduction threatens to intensify already fragile trading conditions

    • Monday, 12 September, 2022
      Global Economy
      Will the Fed really sell its mortgage bonds next year?

      Predictability and principles should win

    • Thursday, 8 September, 2022
      Markets InsightJohn Plender
      The Great Reversal into a higher inflation environment

      Toxic combination of high debt and the shrinkage of central bank balance sheets greatly increases the risk of financial crises

    • Monday, 15 August, 2022
      Markets InsightEdward Yardeni
      Why the Fed might be at ‘neutral’ already on monetary policy

      Strong dollar and the unwinding of quantitative easing are equivalent to 1 percentage point rate rise

    • Tuesday, 19 July, 2022
      UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
      Did QE cause inflation?

      And if so, how?

    • Monday, 11 July, 2022
      The QE retreat
      Did central bank balance sheets really need to get so big?

      Deciphering the mixed signals of monetary policy

    • Sunday, 10 July, 2022
      The mystery of how quantitative tightening will affect markets

      Central banks are starting to shrink their balance sheets, but fund managers say they have no clue as to how QT will play out

    • Monday, 20 June, 2022
      LexEurope quantitative easing
      ECB/EU bonds: big bazooka needed to stop spreads blowing up Premium content

      The next step in the European monetary and political experiment has to be more radical than the last

    • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
      Monetary policy
      Fed begins quantitative tightening on unprecedented scale

      US central bank’s move to reduce $9tn balance sheet comes alongside steep rate rises to tackle persistent inflation

    • Friday, 3 June, 2022
      Unhedged
      Don’t sleep on QT Premium content

      Or on rate volatility

    • Monday, 16 May, 2022
      Rana Foroohar
      Let the Fed put money where it is really needed

      Inflation pressures and asset bubbles are a sign that the central bank has been distracted from its core mission

    • Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
      Edward Luce
      How the Fed lost the plot

      The era in which American monetary policy could rely on the ‘Goldilocks’ scenario is receding

    • Friday, 29 April, 2022
      The Long ViewBrendan Greeley
      The Fed’s balance sheet is normal and political

      Central bank choices will always help some people more than others

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