Quantitative Easing QE1, QE2, QE3

An unexpected change of heart happened this week that you might not have heard about. After years of resisting any path other than its rigorous course, Germany announced it is backing off from pure austerity and is now planning to spend billions of ...

Having pulled in the reins too quickly during QE1 and QE2, Bernanke and Co are very unlikely to make the same mistake again. Once they finally begin to taper purchases of bonds it will be because they really think the economy is in a self-sustaining ...

QE1's impact on scheme funding may have been exaggerated,

Theyve been on pins and needles ever since he uttered the word tapering at last month's FOMC meeting. Since then, investor fear has spiked 24% and stocks have declined 1.6%. On the surface, it seems like a market-wide overreaction. In reality, it ...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Bank stocks tend to decline when the Federal Reserve removes economic stimulus, as many expect the central bank to do on Wednesday, according to a Bank of America Merrill Lynch report published Tuesday. The S&P bank index ...

The financial markets have gyrated in recent weeks on fears that Federal Reserve policymakers will taper the rate of asset purchases. The rise in long-term interest rates and increased market volatility are hard to justify based on the discussion of ...

By Ivan Y. Hedge funds have been significantly increasing their short position in silver futures since the beginning of February. This past week the short position in silver for large speculators (i.e. hedge funds and managed futures funds) reached ...

See Also It's no secret that a lot of hedge fund managers on Wall Street have no love for Ben Bernanke or his monetary policy. Journalists, economists and pundits have mused on the reason why more times that anyone can count. For their part, hedge ...

Posted by on June 17, 2013 As we reach the halfway point of June 2013, let's pull back the perspective on the Big Three US Equity Indexes (Dow Jones, SP500, and NASDAQ) to get a sense of the primary and intermediate trends along with the current ...