Learn how open market operations and quantitative easing differ in scale and purpose, impacting economic growth and monetary ...

The Federal Reserve will end its current round of quantitative tightening on December 1, signaling a potential shift toward quantitative easing. Since 2009, the Fed has managed monetary policy through ...

While the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet has shrunk 22.4% over the past 32 months, the S&P 500 (SP500) has increased more than 72%. This dismisses the myth that the stock market is dependent on ...

When I wrote here last week (“The Year Of The Fire Horse: The Year That Central Bankers Become Largely Irrelevant”) I speculated that the Fed will become irrelevant sometime in this year of the Fire ...

The Bank of Japan forced ahead unprecedented qualitative and quantitative easing despite its failure to overcome deflation in the country more than two years after the introduction of the massive ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke defended quantitative easing, saying it has helped the economy and shows no immediate sign of creating a bubble in asset prices. "We don't think that financial ...

A form of monetary policy used by a central bank to increase the money supply in a bid to stimulate the economy. In the UK, the Bank of England would buy assets such as government and corporate bonds ...

The Fed's potential ending of quantitative tightening policies seems to be good news for investors. However, there's a more complicated picture. These 10 stocks could mint the next wave of ...

On today’s episode, Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler talks with Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami about the possibility of quantitative easing under a new Fed chair and the potential impact on mortgage rates ...