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European Central Bank announces plans to raise its key interest rate
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It’ll also end its large-scale bond-buying program. Central bankers are trying to tame inflation — like their U.S. counterparts at the Federal Reserve.
Treasury bond yields are rising. Here’s what that tells us.
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The yield on the 10-year Treasury note surged to its highest level in three months this morning.
To understand the Fed’s bond-buying dilemma, picture a lake
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A Columbia Business School professor explains quantitative easing and the Feds’ $120 billion per month bond-buying program with an analogy.
Why the Fed is taking longer than other central banks to ease COVID relief
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The Fed has a dual mandate to control inflation as well as unemployment, unlike other central banks.
What’s QE and the ECB got to do with you and me?
How "quantitative easing" and "European Central Bank" may bring cash to U.S. shores.
Fed set to end its bond buying
But it will still keep its foot on the gas.
SolarCity courts customers by selling bonds
Raising capital isn't SolarCity's number one reason for borrowing.
Other cities feel sting of Detroit bankruptcy
If one city doesn't pay up in full, does bond money dry up for everybody else?
Mortgage applications drop after the Fed takes a little juice out of the bond market
Applications for home mortgages in the U.S. have dropped to a record low since the Federal Reserve announced its plans to slow its bond-buying program.
$4.04 trillion in assets
As of yesterday, that's how much the Fed held on its books.

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