Here’s an amazing chart that shows the S&P 500 and each round of Quantitative Easing. It was created and shared by the excellent @trade2day1. The chart is color coded to show every major QE program.

In response to the 2008 financial crisis, the Fed and other central banks deployed zero or near-zero interest rates, quantitative easing and assorted other interventions. These may have averted an ...

Quantitative Easing (QE) has been a focus of American and British monetary policy since 2008. It largely continues to this day, with some modifications. Other central banks from Japan to ...

Now that flow of so-called quantitative easing is turning to the ebb of quantitative tightening, and markets are -- perhaps not coincidentally -- showing increasing volatility. The easy answer is ...

As central banks in Europe and Japan gear up to further expand quantitative-easing policies, market participants have issued a flurry of stark warnings about the potentially-negative unintended ...

In the wake of the global financial crisis of 2007-09, investors and politicians got used to the idea of quantitative easing (QE), a new twist on monetary policy. QE was adopted because cuts in ...

The quantitative easing scheme has pushed up share and bond prices, boosting the value of the wealth of thousands of the country’s wealthiest households. The top 10 per cent each benefited from ...

The European Central Bank on Thursday announced plans to end quantitative easing by December. The central bank has undertaken an unprecedented program of stimulus since the eurozone debt crisis.