The minutes of the last FOMC meeting showed members believe that further quantitative easing of monetary policy will be required if the U.S. economy does not show improvement soon.
Many market watchers perceive the EU bailout package and further measures to shore up the U.S. economy will amount to more quantitative easing of monetary policy by central banks.
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Importantly, many market watchers perceive the EU bailout package and further measures to shore up the U.S. economy will amount to more quantitative easing of monetary policy by central banks.
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There will be a lot of news to monitor and digest over the next few days and the prospect of additional quantitative easing and lower monetary policy rates this year could help stall the recent slide in gold prices.
ChartObject Federal Funds Target RateAccording to Investopedia, quantitative easing is a government monetary policy occasionally used to increase the money supply by buying securities, such as U.S. Treasury Bonds, in the open market.
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Importantly, the market place has at least initially perceived the FOMC statement as suggesting there will not be a fresh round of quantitative monetary policy easing measures coming from the Fed any time soon.
For all the fuss made about the end to quantitative easing, Japan's monetary policy is still super-loose, and will remain so for a good while.
Crafty, or sensible, we can say for sure that the change in policy represents a small easing in monetary policy, which will act much like another dose of quantitative easing over the coming months.
This led to speculation of a third round of quantitative easing of U.S. monetary policy.
There is now fresh talk of further quantitative easing of U.S. monetary policy (QE3).
There is still some talk of further quantitative easing of U.S. monetary policy (QE3) if U.S. economic data disappoints.
It was not widely expected the FOMC minutes would reveal anything new that would further suggest another round of quantitative easing of U.S. monetary policy is right around the corner.
Rising weekly jobless claims and a tepid gross domestic product estimate for the second quarter added to a recent string of weak U.S. economic data that is making for increasing speculation the Federal Reserve may opt for another round of quantitative easing of U.S. monetary policy.
Blind faith in quantitative easing is not a good basis for monetary policy.
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With murmurs at the FOMC growing louder every time the Fed Chairman and his acolytes express support for ultra-loose monetary policy and continued quantitative easing, Ben Bernanke faced the Senate Banking Committee where he once again defended his tenure as central bank chief.
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Three members of the Monetary Policy Committee voted for more quantitative easing last month - including the Governor himself.
Indeed, many in the City think the Monetary Policy Committee might vote for more quantitative easing as early as tomorrow.
Part of that comes from the comments by the Federal Reserve after the release of the December meeting minutes where some monetary policy committee members suggested ending the quantitative easing program this year.
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The Bank of Japan has promised that it will stick with its current policy of zero interest rates and quantitative monetary easing (basically, printing money) until consumer-price inflation has been positive for several months and is expected to remain positive.
As well as helping the Monetary Policy Committee to fulfil its inflationary aims, the quantitative easing policy has helped to stoke demand for gilts.
Consider the millions of pounds of paper that the Federal Reserve will need to afford its easy monetary policy, which today further earned its latest epithet: quantitative easing infinity.
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The re-election of President Obama means a greater likelihood of continuity in U.S. Federal Reserve monetary policy, including a continuation of the bond-buying program known as quantitative easing, said Anne-Laure Tremblay, precious-metals strategist at BNP Paribas.
The Federal Reserve, along with other major central banks across the globe, are engaged in ultra-loose monetary policy, using low interest rates and asset purchases (i.e. quantitative easing, or QE) to help support their economies.
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Sonders and fellow roundtable participant Charles Brunie both found huge significance in the ending of the Bank of Japan's policy of quantitative easing of interest rates, and concluded that it is producing an international monetary squeeze.
Since joining the Monetary Policy Committee he has regularly made it his business to explain in his speeches what quantitative easing really is - and try to dispel some of the myths about how it works.
Monetary policy in the U.S. remains loose and there is still the possibility of more quantitative easing.
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