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    • 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

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    • 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

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    • 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
    • Monday, 1 November, 2021
      Inside BusinessRobin Wigglesworth
      The dawn of the quantitative tightening era?

      Central banks have rattled bond markets, but fears of a radical new regime are overdone

    • Wednesday, 8 September, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      It is time for the ECB to talk about tapering

      Outlook is still unclear but justification for emergency support is weakening

      Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank
    • Friday, 27 August, 2021
      Federal Reserve
      Powell sends strong signal Fed could dial back stimulus this year

      Central bank chief declares ‘clear progress’ on US labour market in speech at Jackson Hole

    • Friday, 13 August, 2021
      The Long ViewTommy Stubbington
      Quitting QE may be harder than the Bank of England believes

      It is rash to pretend that withdrawal of support for bond markets will be straightforward

    • Wednesday, 4 August, 2021
      US Treasury bonds
      US sets stage for first Treasury sales reduction in five years

      Government says it may cut back on issuance in November amid easing borrowing needs

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