GBP/USD edges higher on Tuesday as US CPI data keeps September Fed policy easing bets alive. US headline CPI rose 0.2% MoM in ...

The Bank of England on Tuesday lowered slightly to 115 billion pounds ($155 billion) its estimate of the net loss that ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...