Unconventional policies such as quantitative easing should be used only in true emergencies, in coordination with the rest of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 purchasing ...

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 ...

(Reuters) - 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. Here ...

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 ...

Nov 30 (Reuters) - The head of the Bank of Japan said on Monday it will act decisively in the event of renewed financial market turmoil, his strongest hint yet at fresh support for the economy that ...