will remain appropriate for a considerable time after
the asset purchase program ends and the economic recovery strengthens.
The Committee continues to anticipate, based on its assessment of these factors, that it likely will be appropriate to maintain the current target range for the federal funds rate for a considerable time after
the asset purchase program ends, especially if projected inflation continues to run below the Committee's 2 percent longer - run goal, and provided that longer - term inflation expectations remain well anchored.
To support continued progress toward maximum employment and price stability, the Committee expects that a highly accommodative stance of monetary policy will remain appropriate for a considerable time after
the asset purchase program ends and the economic recovery strengthens.
To support continued progress toward maximum employment and price stability, the Committee today reaffirmed its view that a highly accommodative stance of monetary policy will remain appropriate for a considerable time after
the asset purchase program ends and the economic recovery strengthens.
The Fed funds rate will stay at zero percent «a considerable time after
the asset purchase program ends.»
1.6 %), and some dovish comments from Draghi (reiterated rates will remain unchanged well after
asset purchase program ends, headline inflation around 1.5 % for rest of the year).
Not exact matches
Last month, the Bank of Japan adopted a 2 percent inflation target and laid out plans for an open -
ended asset purchase program.
Last month, the BOJ adopted a 2 percent inflation target and pledged to carry out an open -
ended asset purchase program from next year, bowing to pressure from Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to adopt an aggressive monetary policy to
end years of deflation.
The Fed under Yellen has carefully stripped its policy statement of most future - oriented promises to keep rates low, along with
ending crisis - era
asset purchase programs.
First, by the
end of 2014, following the large - scale
asset purchase programs, the Federal Reserve balance sheet was funded by about $ 3.1 trillion in liabilities other than Federal Reserve notes, which were mostly in the form of reserves in excess of the amount banks were required to hold; in contrast, there were only $ 64 billion of non-Federal Reserve note liabilities in June 2007, of which only about $ 2 billion were excess reserves.
With the
ending of the stimulus funding and the repayment of the principal on
assets maturing under the Insured Mortgage
Purchase Program, the federal government's new borrowing requirements are falling dramatically.
Minutes of the Fed's June meeting, released yesterday, showed officials have agreed they'll
end their
asset -
purchase program in October if the economy holds up.
In the press conference that followed the monetary - policy meeting, the president of Europe's central bank, Mario Draghi, stated that interest rates will remain at current levels well past the
end of the bank's
asset -
purchase program, carried out along with reinvesting principle payments from maturing securities.
The European Central Bank is currently tapering its
asset purchase program, and we anticipate an
end to the
program as the eurozone economy improves.
This open -
ended asset purchase program allows the bank to increase its $ 40 billion monthly limit for
asset purchases.
The first key decisions under the augmented mandate were the introduction of a 2 % inflation target and the initiation of a new open -
ended Asset Purchase Program, initially scaled to an estimated 7 % of GDP (view post here).
the introduction of a 2 % inflation target and the initiation of a new open -
ended Asset Purchase Program
The Committee sees this guidance as consistent with its previous statement that it likely will be appropriate to maintain the 0 to 1/4 percent target range for the federal funds rate for a considerable time following the
end of its
asset purchase program in October, especially if projected inflation continues to run below the Committee's 2 percent longer - run goal, and provided that longer - term inflation expectations remain well anchored.