quantitative tightening

The Federal Reserve's latest moves have shifted the narrative, argues the high-profile former Pendal fixed income and duration head.

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Some "inside-baseball" monetary policy machinations were revealed by the RBA yesterday, which banks and other expert RBA watchers summarise as the central bank...

Monetary Policy from Tailwind to Headwind: Last year I counted 123 rate hikes across 41 central banks… meanwhile already so far this year I’ve counted 67 interest...

Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria may have devastated parts of the US in 2017 but the Janet Yellen-led Federal Reserve was determined to persist with an unprecedented...

I’ve spent the last few days talking to most of the folks I know in the market, collecting opinions, information and discussing what other investors are thinking on...

When the stars align, there is money on the table for investors in short selling – the process of selling high, then buying low. With the tide of central bank...

Quantitative easing (QE) is the process by which central banks inject money directly into the financial system, usually through the purchase of government bonds using...

Last month we saw the FED raising rates for the 9th time in the last 3 years, now to 2.25-2.5% per annum. Also, this month, the FED might keep its Quantitative...

The fed is now unwinding the biggest monetary experiment in history, which saw $3.6 trillion of asset purchases from the Fed between 2008 and 2015. This is unknown...

As expected (by me and pretty much everyone else) the Fed held interest rates unchanged and announced that it would commence its balance sheet normalization plan in...

Quantitative Easing (QE) is the term used to describe artificial purchasing of bonds by central banks globally. The aim has been to suppress interest rates and...

The latest FOMC meeting included the release of plans for balance sheet normalisation or a transition from QE to QT . Consider this: each time QE was launched in...