Quantitative easing (QE) is a robust monetary policy tool used by central banks to stimulate the economy when interest rate ...

The Federal Reserve announced it will end balance sheet reduction in December. Is it setting the stage for quantitative easing?

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 round of quantitative tightening has gone on for over three and one-half years and is the round that the Fed will be ...

The Federal Reserve concludes a meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee later today, and markets are anxiously awaiting what the committee will decide with regards to the central bank’s monthly ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has said the U.S. central bank may need to deploy additional measures to fight the coronavirus-induced recession -- and said policymakers would rely on their ...

The Fed cut interest rates by 25 basis points to a range of 3.75%–4.00% and announced it will end quantitative tightening. A ...

Dec 23 (Reuters) - 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 ...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has said it could use quantitative easing — the purchase of large amounts of financial assets such as bonds — as a way to boost the struggling ...

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 ...