Quantitative easing stimulates the economy by increasing bank lending and consumer spending. The Fed buys securities from banks, boosting their liquidity and lending capacity. Potential risks include ...

The Bank of England extended its quantitative easing programme on Thursday, raising the size of its bond purchase scheme to an unexpectedly large 175 billion pounds from 125 billion.

St. Patrick’s Day is still just over a month away, but when Corporate America looked through its pockets it found just over $300 billion in magic money that the leprechauns had apparently left ...

Ben Bernanke's second round of quantitative easing (aka QE2), intended to stimulate the economy, is coming under review following a spike in interest rates. Since the goal of QE2 is to boost ...

Following the 2008 financial crisis, central banks in advanced economies implemented a series of large-scale asset purchase programs, often referred to as quantitative easing pro­grams, with the ...

Russell doesn't expect the stock market to gain much this year beyond the August highs. Most Fed watchers, however, are not ready to make such bold predictions with regard to quantitative easing.

This case presents financial and macroeconomic data for the United States between 2007 and 2013, a period covering the financial crisis and Great Recession of 2007 2009 and the slow economic recovery ...

Stock prices plunge as Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, hints at phasing out quantitative easing, the process of buying bonds to the tune of $85 billion per month, thus adding ...

-- Quantitative easing refers to ways of boosting economic growth after traditional monetary policy tools, such as interest rate targets, have been exhausted.