Its historic, knife-edge decision to cut interest rates captured headlines on Thursday, but the Bank of England could be ...

Quantitative easing is a radical step which is taken when other measures such as lowering interest rates fail to reinvigorate the economy. This definition is for general information purposes only ...

UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt would have an extra £10 billion a year for tax cuts if the Bank of England stopped selling the bonds it bought over more than a decade under quantitative easing ...

GBP is firmer versus USD but weaker against EUR. In our view, stagflation headwind in the UK threatens further GBP ...

Economists and markets widely anticipate a 25 basis point cut, maintaining the central bank’s current once-per-quarter pace ...

The OECD’s latest ‘Global Debt Report’ has flagged the global risks of a debt spike in developed economies. With fiscal ...

Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa said last week that the central bank's decision to cut interest rates and buy more assets did not mark a return to quantitative easing, an extreme policy ...

What is quantitative easing? Quantitative easing is one of many methods the United States Federal Reserve has to stimulate the economy when it looks like it may stall. Generally, quantitative ...

Quantitative involves printing money to stimulate growth and tends to be seen as a negative for a currency as it boosts supply. Sterling edged down 0.1 percent against the dollar to $1.5966.

Quantitative easing is the deliberate expansion of the central bank's balance sheet. The Fed purchases assets such as government bonds and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) in the open market.

· In monetary policy, efforts to stimulate the economy by expanding the quantity of money in the financial system rather than by targeting a specific interest rate. See also quantitative monetary ...