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 ...

Quantitative easing (QE) entered the lexicon in 2009 when, for reasons which remain obscure to this day, the world’s Western ...

This Former Fed Official Thinks Quantitative Easing Has Been a Disaster 8 minute read Vehicles pass the U.S. Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011.

Markets aren’t acting like this is a reality, however. Benchmark 2-year U.S. Treasury note yields rose just two basis points ...

ECB weighs quantitative easing as options to revive economy run dry. With inflation continuing to fall and growth flatlining, pressure is mounting on the ECB as it edges closer to exhausting less ...

The central bank’s quantitative tightening programme is not much discussed, but is central to the government’s cuts and ...

Too Much Candy: A Plain-and-Simple Way to Understand Quantitative Easing, Part 3 1 minute read Ben Bernanke recently announced that the Federal Reserve would hold short-term interest rates near zero.

The Bank of England could soon announce an end to the sale of most of the long-dated gilts it holds in an effort to soothe ...

The ECB could take an unprecedented step tomorrow – and start to buy private debt. But opinion is sharply divided as to whether such quantitative easing will work. One of the market’s least-well-kept ...