
Business Jan 6, 2022
Debate emerges over how to shrink Fed’s $8 trillion bond pile
Federal Reserve officials have begun debating how to approach shrinking a stockpile of more than $8 trillion of bonds.
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Federal Reserve officials have begun debating how to approach shrinking a stockpile of more than $8 trillion of bonds.
He added that China’s issues aren’t like the subprime U.S. mortgage meltdown that spurred turmoil across the world in 2008.
More than a year after the crackdown began, signs of an investor exodus are hard to find.
Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda's role as the prime focus for efforts to revive the world's third-largest economy is coming to an end. An unprecedented level of concern about damaging side effects of Japan's multidecade experiment with ultralow interest rates has gripped policymakers, regulators ...
Less than three weeks before the Bank of Japan's next scheduled policy meeting, Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda met with former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke over lunch on Monday. The BOJ issued no statement on the substance of the talks, which come as the central ...
Pressured by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to share some of their record profits, and by increasingly obsolescent equipment, Japan's companies are starting to boost their investment spending. Policymakers have unleashed a public campaign to encourage the rebound, a new focus for the Abe administration after ...