Bitcoin's bull run faces uncertainty as Fed Chair Powell reinforces QT, delaying liquidity shifts. BTC dominance holds, but ...
As private-sector buyers purchase those new Treasuries, the process drains cash from the financial system, undoing the money ...
Bank of England (BoE) Governor Andrew Bailey said on Monday that the fourth quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures do ...
A key measure of excess liquidity in the financial system is evaporating rapidly. Once it disappears, further reduction of ...
QE is not meant to be permanent. Once the economy is working as it should, we no longer need to hold all the bonds that have been purchased. So over time, we shrink our balance sheet through a process ...
Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem said late Thursday that a policy shift in the US was causing uncertainty and President ...
But now, as the Bank scrambles to unwind QE with quantitative tightening (QT), the hidden costs of this policy are coming into sharp focus – and at the worst possible time. QE was a massive ...
Through QT, the Bank allows its holdings of GoC bonds to mature and stops reinvesting the proceeds of principal and coupon repayments. As a result, the Bank’s balance sheet will shrink over time. In ...
The Bank of Canada ended QE in October 2021 and began the process of quantitative tightening (QT) in April 2022, by letting the central bank’s bond holdings roll off the balance sheet when they ...