*Combines the weekly series that stopped in September 2014 and, from then on, the sum of the four assets reported weekly that account for over 90% of the balance sheet by value.

Slowing its balance-sheet runoff means the Fed will buy more Treasuries. But don’t look for any big downdraft in yields.

It finds that when the Federal Reserve expanded its balance sheet via large-scale asset purchases (quantitative easing) in recent years, there is an increase in commercial bank deposits with a ...

Since the onset of the financial crisis in 2007, there has been a dramatic expansion in the size of the balance sheets of the Bank of England (BOE), the European Central Bank (ECB), and the U.S.