Fed ends quantitative easing while keeping low interest rate pledgeJeff KearnsChristopher Condon
Investors have been girding for a Fed announcement that it planned to start weaning the economy off stimulus. The central bank launched its massive bond-buying program in November 2008 as economic growth was shrinking following the housing crash. The policy, known as “quantitative easing,” or ...
In just a couple months, the US Federal Reserve’s second quantitative-easing campaign will wind down. This program has been highly controversial since its birth, so the Fed is under tremendous pressure not to launch a third round of QE. And if QE2 indeed ends on schedule this quarter, it...
June 30 marks the last day of the Fed's policy of buying Treasurys to inject liquidity in the markets to help interest rates stay low and Eric Wand, fixed income strategist at Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets, said there are no major surprises expected for bond yields as quantitative easing en...
At mid-December’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting, Fed officials began discussing quantitative tightening. Effectively selling previously-monetized bonds to unwind quantitative-easing money printing, this revelation from the minutes rattled markets in early January. But hawkish-jawboning talk is cheap...
Fed Chair Janet Yellen at her first press briefing about when the Fed could begin to raise rates. The markets took her remark to suggest that the Fed could raise rates six months after it ends quantitative easing literally, and Fed officials have spent a lot of effort to change that view....
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Gold’s incredible selloff during QE3 is a mind-boggling anomaly. Quantitative easing is a happy-sounding euphemism fordebt monetization, the highest-octane form of monetary inflation there is. When the Fed buys bonds, it simply creates the money to do soout of thin air. And in the case ...
For interest rates I used the yields on benchmark 1-year Treasury bills and 10-year Treasury notes to represent both the short and long ends of the yield curve. Are rising and higher rates really bearish for gold? The simple answer is absolutely not. Gold’s mighty secular bull of the ...