Sentences with phrase «trillions of bonds purchased»

The Federal Reserve is currently in the process of unloading trillions of bonds purchased during the years of Quantitative Easing.

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Launched three years ago to fight off the threat of deflation, the ECB's 2.55 trillion euro ($ 3.14 trillion) bond purchase programme has kept borrowing costs low to induce spending and investment, all with the ultimate aim of generating inflation.

Valeri noted that could change, though, as occurred with the first round of quantitative easing, where a massive $ 1.25 trillion purchase of mortgage - backed securities was followed months later by a large - scale purchase of Treasury bonds.

Awash in Liquidity The second round of quantitative easing, known as QE2, follows the Fed's purchases of nearly $ 2 trillion of bonds during the Great Recession.

If the whole thing — the rises in stock prices, in corporate earnings, in the housing market, even in job growth — is driven solely by the flood of money, or whether five years of zero - interest rates and trillions of dollars in bond purchases have succeeded at getting a more resilient economic engine for the United States up and running.

Central bankers around the world are debasing fiat currencies with rounds of quantitative easing, resulting in trillions of government bonds being purchased and swapped.

What I find unusual is that only 20 % of the $ 1 trillion in bond purchases, or $ 60 billion a month through at least September 2016, will be risk - shared across all of the eurozone.

Bernanke had pushed the central bank to drop its key short - term interest rate to near zero and purchased trillions of dollars of government bonds to lower long - term rates.

At that time, four out of five American households purchased the original Victory Bonds, raising $ 185 billion (over $ 2 trillion in today's dollars) to support the war effort.

The Bank of Japan has vowed to purchase about $ 664 billion (yes, that's billion with a B) in Japanese treasury bonds each year (80 trillion yen a year).

See todays Bloomberg News: ¨ Indirect bidders, a group of investors that includes foreign central banks, purchased 45 percent of the $ 1.917 trillion in U.S. notes and bonds sold this year through Nov. 25, compared with 29 percent a year ago, according to Fed auction data compiled by Bloomberg News.

From 2001 to 2005, foreign purchases of U.S. Treasury bonds and other debt instruments, including mortgage - backed securities, rose from $ 785 billion to $ 1.3 trillion, according to U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis data.

The federal tax credit program will end at the end of April, the Federal Housing Administration is tightening the screws on its minimum standards, and the Fed plans to end it's 1.25 trillion dollar mortgage - bond - purchase program in just a few days.