Quantitative easing (QE)
Jean-Marc Bonnefous talks China and QE2
Jean-Marc Bonnefous, managing partner, Tellurian Capital Management, talks Chinese growth scenarios, quantitative easing, and their impact on commodity markets
Credit investors nervous over withdrawal of QE2
Credit investors nervous over withdrawal of US quantitative easing programmes
Forex structurers prepare for inflation
Preparing for inflation
CBRC’s Andrew Sheng talks about new era for policymaking
Theory failure
The impact of QE2 on emerging markets
Boom and bust
Hedge fund Dighton predicts five-year bull run for commodities
Emerging market equities subject to political uncertainty, while demand for commodities a certainty
The quant delusion
The quant delusion
$300m net inflow to Asia hedge funds in Q3, says HFR
Net assets invested in Asian hedge funds rose by more than $300 million during the third quarter, according to research by Chicago-based Hedge Fund Research
Expect double-dip, not inflation, says CreditSights' Purtle
Chief strategist at CreditSights Louise Purtle warns that global deleveraging makes double-dip recession more likely than inflation.
Policy errors pose biggest risk to investors, says State Street's Cunningham
Federal Reserve measures to boost economic growth pose the biggest risk to continued growth and to rational markets, says William Cunningham, global head of fixed income research at State Street.
FOMC pledges to maintain scale of asset purchases
Federal Reserve fails to announce additional quantitative easing but pledges to keep size of purchases at current levels; calls for more easing spurred by weak jobs data
$500 billion reserve drain made crisis worse: IMF’s Ferhani
Deputy director says IMF research shows central bank reserve managers withdrew $500 billion from deposits at commercial banks during crisis
Inflation outlook volatile, BoE warns
UK inflation will be “unusually volatile” in the coming months and could fall below 1% in the autumn, the Bank of England said in its quarterly inflation report today.
ECB's Gonzalez-Paramo Speaks on QE
At Risk Europe 2009 in Frankfurt, an ECB board member discusses the role of central banks, when markets and monetary policy combine.
BoE allocates extra £50 billion for asset purchases
The Bank of England (BoE) will expand its asset purchase facility, or ‘quantitative easing’, by £50 billion to £175 billion, it said today.