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Quantitative easing

  • European Central Bank “on track” to complete its €1 trillion quantitative easing programme

    August 13, 2015

    The European Central Bank (ECB) is on course to complete its €1.1 trillion (£780bn) euro money printing programme, according to details of its most recent meeting. The ECB downplayed the risk to growth from recent economic turbulence in Greece and China, insisting its outlook remained broadly unchanged. Bank officials pointed to a recovery in bank [...]

  • As Japanese growth picks up pace, can we expect QE in the Eurozone to be as successful?

    May 20, 2015

    Christian Schulz, senior economist at Berenberg, says Yes Since early 2013, when Japan’s QE became imminent, its average quarterly annualised GDP growth rate has risen to 1 per cent, from 0.2 per cent in 2011/12. In the Eurozone, with the European Central Bank (ECB) launching QE, GDP expanded by 1.6 per cent in the first [...]

  • ECB Executive Board Member Yves Mersch says QE stimulus won’t end early

    May 16, 2015

    European Central Bank executive board member Yves Mersch has said it won't be ending its government bond buying programme prematurely, echoing comments made by boss Mario Draghi earlier this week. Mersch further dampened speculation the central bank's €1.1 trillion stimulus package would end early, saying this would cast doubts on its growth forecasts for the euro [...]

  • It’s baffling that Labour didn’t make more of QE in its election campaign

    May 15, 2015

    George Osborne's management of the economy has been credited with winning the Conservatives the election. Despite repeated criticism and warnings of the dire economic consequences of his austerity policies from adversaries, he continued on. The Labour leadership majored on this theme in the first few years in opposition.   In the early days of the [...]

  • Mario Draghi defends ECB policy decisions after QE rollout

    March 23, 2015

    European Central Bank (ECB) chief Mario Draghi yesterday hit back at claims that new monetary policy measures would reduce the need for governments to undertake reforms, ultimately harming growth prospects. “Do you really think a high level of interest rates would form an incentive for a government to improve its education system, or judiciary, or [...]

  • Beware a taper tantrum after ECB QE – CNBC Comment

    March 23, 2015

    Saying goodbye is one of the hardest things in life, especially when it is to a good friend who has brought you joy, peace of mind and, yes, profits. For investors over recent years, that friend has been easy monetary policy. St Louis Fed president James Bullard told CNBC yesterday that there was the potential [...]

  • Is the ECB speaking too soon in saying that QE is already helping the Eurozone economy?

    March 19, 2015

    Danae Kyriakopoulou, an economist at the Centre for Economics and Business Research, says Yes Central bankers in Frankfurt have been patting each other on the back as the euro has continued to slide. At first glance, why shouldn’t they? Their QE has sent the euro tumbling, making Eurozone exports more competitive and raising prospects for [...]

  • Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis sounds alarm over quantitative easing

    March 14, 2015

    The European Central Bank kicked off its bond-buying programme this week, as investors cheered the move, however Greece's Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis warned over its potential outcomes. "QE is all around us and optimism is in the air," Varoufakis said in Italy. "At the risk to sound the party pooper … I find it hard to [...]

  • Euro loses one per cent against the dollar as markets feel the impact of quantitative easing

    March 10, 2015

    The euro has fallen further against the dollar today, after the European Central Bank (ECB) launched its much-anticipated quantitative easing programme. The single currency briefly fell below the $1.07 mark in late afternoon trading, or down more than one per cent, taking it to its lowest level since 2003.   It wasn't helped by the [...]

  • Pound smashes through €1.40 mark hitting seven-year high against the euro amid quantitative easing and Greek woes

    March 10, 2015

    The pound soared to a more-than seven year high against the euro today thanks to the start of Eurozone quantitative easing. Sterling rose 0.45 per cent, powering past €1.40, its strongest since December 2007. It's been buoyed by Draghi's "biggest bazooka", the €1.1 trillion (£720bn) bond-buying programme, which was launched yesterday. The programme, due to [...]

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