quantitative-tightening
Investors Expectations for Bank of England Qt Edge Lower
Analysis-Bank of England Poised to Slow Qt After Rise in Yields
BoE Could Soon End Most Long-Dated Gilt Sales, Former Policymaker Says
Bank of England's Mann Says Qt Impact Needs to Be Reconsidered
ECB Rate Cuts Should Factor in Balance Sheet Runoff, Cipollone Says
Date: February 18, 2025
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European Central Bank interest rate cuts should compensate for the tightening impact of the bank's balance sheet runoff, board member Piero Cipollone said on Tuesday, hinting...
Bank of England Set to Hold Rates With Bond Sales in Spotlight
Date: September 19, 2024
By Andy Bruce (Reuters) – The Bank of England looks set to keep interest rates on hold on Thursday as it awaits signs that inflation risks are quashed, putting the focus instead on a decision about bond sales that could feed into Finance Minister Rachel Reeves’ first budget. British inflation held steady in August...
ECB Could Slow Rate Hikes, but Bond Run-Off Should Start Soon, Knot Says
Date: November 18, 2022
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Central Bank may slow the pace of interest rate hikes but should soon start running down its massive government debt holdings as that would ease the need for further rate rises, Dutch Central Bank President Klaas Knot said on Friday. The ECB has raised rates by an unprecedented 200 basis...
Explainer-Why Is the Bank of England Selling Government Bonds?
Date: November 1, 2022
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England will pass a major milestone on Tuesday when it holds a first auction to sell some of the 875 billion pounds ($1.01 trillion) of government bonds it bought during successive quantitative easing (QE) programmes from 2009-2021. Britain’s central bank will be the first in the...
BoE Says Report of Another Delay of Its Bond Sales Is ‘inaccurate’
Date: October 18, 2022
By Andy Bruce and William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) -The Bank of England said on Tuesday it had not decided to delay again the start of its sales of government bonds after the Financial Times reported that another postponement was likely because of the recent turmoil in British markets. The newspaper said the BoE was likely...
Analysis-ECB ‘qt’ May Be Next Challenge for Tumultuous Markets
Date: October 14, 2022
By Yoruk Bahceli and Dhara Ranasinghe LONDON (Reuters) – The European Central Bank is considering entering the maelstrom of volatile world markets to start winding down its massive bond holdings – just as governments scale up spending to respond to an energy crisis likely to induce a recession. The ECB, which bought 5 trillion euros...