Sentences with phrase «aggressive bond buying»

In particular, a resurgence in aggressive bond buying helped to spark an essential contraction in rates in the past year.

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In theory, hedge funds can pursue a lucrative strategy of buying impaired bonds from less knowledgeable investors at deeply discounted prices and then taking aggressive legal action to collect all, or almost all, of the promised principal and interest.

Less - than - clear indications from the U.S. Federal Reserve on whether it might scale back its aggressive bond - buying program, dubbed quantitative easing or QE, also caused investors to curb their enthusiasm.

FRANKFURT — The European Central Bank said on Thursday that it would begin buying hundreds of billions of euros worth of government bonds in an aggressive — though some say belated — attempt to prevent the eurozone from becoming trapped in long - term economic stagnation.

Its aggressive post-crisis monetary policy to drive down interest rates made the buying and selling of bonds unprofitable.

Capital controls have historically been as much about preventing foreigners from buying local government bonds as it has been about preventing destabilizing bouts of flight capital, and living in China, where an aggressive demand for the privileges of reserve currency status coincide with equally aggressive policies that prevent the RMB from achieving reserve currency status (and that transfer ever more of the «benefits» to the US) made clear the huge gap in rhetoric and practice.

The yields on these extremely short - term vehicles just about disappeared as the Federal Reserve's program of bond - buying, known as Quantitative Easing, and other aggressive monetary policy measures drove down rates.

While your risk tolerance will determine what type of funds to buy — products often come in a range from conservative to aggressive — it's generally a good idea to hold something more balanced that comes with stocks and bonds, she says.