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              The QE retreat

              • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
                Gillian Tett
                Market gyrations reflect fears about the unwinding of QE

                The yen carry trade is a symptom not a cause of investor anxiety

                Illustration of a red herring with dollar coins instead of scales
              • Tuesday, 5 March, 2024
                Chris Giles on Central Banks
                Does quantitative easing deserve to come out of the sin bin? Premium content

                The international success of quantitative tightening strengthens the case for money printing

                Storm clouds over the US Federal Reserve building in Washington
              • Tuesday, 9 January, 2024
                Unhedged
                A value stock comeback, maybe Premium content

                And the case for slow QT

                A montage of the statue of George Washington on Wall Street
              • Saturday, 6 January, 2024
                Federal Reserve
                Fed revives investors’ hopes of end to ‘quantitative tightening’

                Officials raise end of balance sheet wind-down at December meeting

                The US Federal Reserve building
              • Monday, 27 November, 2023
                European Central Bank
                ECB to discuss earlier end to bond purchases, says Christine Lagarde

                Pandemic-era €1.7tn stimulus programme had been due to wind down by end 2024

                ECB president Christine Lagarde
              • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
                Unhedged
                The Zombie notpocalypse Premium content

                Easy money has not bred the undead

                A woman dressed as a zombie
              • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
                Markets InsightTej Parikh
                Central banks’ trillion-dollar problem

                Bloated balance sheets need to come down without endangering financial stability

                Federal Reserve building during a renovation in Washington
              • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
                Unhedged
                QT is not nearly done Premium content

                And more on consumer confidence

                Jay Powell
              • Friday, 10 November, 2023
                Unhedged
                Bill Dudley: inflation wasn’t caused by too much money Premium content

                The former head of the New York Fed on macro lessons, monetary policy and the coming US fiscal crisis

                Bill Dudley
              • Friday, 11 August, 2023
                Investors brace for turbulence as Fed balance sheet shrinks by $1tn

                Central bank will continue shedding Treasuries at a time of significant US government borrowing

              • Thursday, 13 April, 2023
                Sovereign bonds
                Italian bonds shrug off higher rates to eclipse other big debt markets

                Returns confound expectations that ECB monetary tightening would hurt more fragile eurozone members

                Women walk in Rome near the Vatican
              • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
                Gillian Tett
                US investors need to keep a much closer eye on everywhere else

                Obsessively watching the Fed is one thing but Tokyo and Beijing matter too

                Illustration of a globe cage on a red background with the US dollar, Chinese yuan and Japanese yen signs inside the globe
              • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
                Megan Greene
                QE has become ‘Hotel California’ for central banks

                While commercial lenders change behaviour when the balance sheet expands, they do not change it back when it shrinks

                Janet Yellen in 2017, when the then Fed chair said quantitative tightening would be ‘like watching paint dry’
              • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
                Global Economy
                BoJ YCC > Fed QT

                What will Ueda do?

              • Wednesday, 28 December, 2022
                Markets InsightMichael Howell
                Is QE returning by stealth?

                While the Fed is reducing its bond-buying programme, it is still providing stimulus via other means

              • Monday, 5 December, 2022
                News in-depthMarkets volatility
                Financial instability: the hunt for the next market fracture

                Investors are keeping a close eye on areas ranging from US Treasury market illiquidity to Japanese government debt

                An image of a euro coin along with US dollars and Japanese yen
              • Wednesday, 26 October, 2022
                ECB to start talks on shrinking balance sheet amid bond market turmoil

                The eurozone’s central bankers will begin discussions this week, as well as raising rate by a likely 75 basis points

                Christine Lagarde
              • Monday, 24 October, 2022
                Gilts
                Traders brace for further volatility as bond markets turn bearish

                Impact of quantitative tightening adds to concerns as liquidity continues to fall

                trader working on his post
              • Monday, 11 July, 2022
                Did central bank balance sheets really need to get so big?

                Deciphering the mixed signals of monetary policy

              • Sunday, 10 July, 2022
                US quantitative easing
                The mystery of how quantitative tightening will affect markets

                Central banks are starting to shrink their balance sheets, but fund managers say they have no clue as to how QT will play out

              • Monday, 20 June, 2022
                LexEurope quantitative easing
                ECB/EU bonds: big bazooka needed to stop spreads blowing up Premium content

                The next step in the European monetary and political experiment has to be more radical than the last

                The European Central Bank in Frankfurt
              • Friday, 18 February, 2022
                Central banks
                Investors brace for central banks’ retreat from bond markets

                ‘Quantitative tightening’ will mark profound shift after years of large-scale asset purchases

                Montage showing the exterior of the Bank of England the Federal Reserve’s seal
              • Monday, 7 February, 2022
                News in-depthEquities
                Market swings leave high-profile stockpickers wrongfooted

                Scottish Mortgage and ‘Tiger cub’ Maverick Capital among funds nursing steep 2022 losses

                Illustration of Lee Ainslie of Maverick Capital, veteran stockpicker Terry Smith and Tom Slater of Baillie Gifford
              • Friday, 5 November, 2021
                The FT ViewThe editorial board
                The end of the bond market bull run

                Central banks have begun the slow process of normalising monetary policy

                The Federal Reserve building in Washington, US
              • Wednesday, 3 November, 2021
                Federal Reserve
                Fed to start winding back $120bn-a-month stimulus programme

                Central bank plans ‘taper’ of bond purchases as US economy contends with surging inflation

                US Federal Reserve building
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