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Bond buying

European Central Bank announces plans to raise its key interest rate

by Lily Jamali
Jun 9, 2022
It'll also end its large-scale bond-buying program. Central bankers are trying to tame inflation — like their U.S. counterparts at the Federal Reserve.
The European Central Bank said Thursday it plans to start raising its key interest rate next month.
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Treasury bond yields are rising. Here's what that tells us.

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Sep 28, 2021
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note surged to its highest level in three months this morning.
Inflation could be one of the reasons bond buyers are demanding higher yields.
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Kai Explains

To understand the Fed’s bond-buying dilemma, picture a lake

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Jul 13, 2021
A Columbia Business School professor explains quantitative easing and the Feds' $120 billion per month bond-buying program with an analogy.
If water on a lake is too low, boats can't go from one side to the other smoothly. "The Fed is basically adding some water in that lake to keep the liquidity — or to keep the water — from completely drying out,” says Yiming Ma of Columbia Business School.
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COVID & Unemployment

Why the Fed is taking longer than other central banks to ease COVID relief

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Jun 16, 2021
The Fed has a dual mandate to control inflation as well as unemployment, unlike other central banks.
A view of the Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C.
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What’s QE and the ECB got to do with you and me?

by Dan Bobkoff
Jan 22, 2015
How "quantitative easing" and "European Central Bank" may bring cash to U.S. shores.
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Fed set to end its bond buying

by Kate Davidson
Oct 28, 2014
But it will still keep its foot on the gas.
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SolarCity courts customers by selling bonds

by Dan Weissmann
Oct 20, 2014
Raising capital isn't SolarCity's number one reason for borrowing.
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Other cities feel sting of Detroit bankruptcy

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Jul 22, 2014
If one city doesn't pay up in full, does bond money dry up for everybody else?
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Mortgage applications drop after the Fed takes a little juice out of the bond market

by Lizzie O'Leary
Dec 24, 2013
Applications for home mortgages in the U.S. have dropped to a record low since the Federal Reserve announced its plans to slow its bond-buying program.
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Final Note

$4.04 trillion in assets

by Kai Ryssdal
Dec 19, 2013
As of yesterday, that's how much the Fed held on its books.
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