Quantitative Easing

While most of the rest of the world is debating “when” rather than “if” an FOMC rate hike is coming, Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio sees a much more troubling scenario unfolding. According to Dalio, the next major move by the Federal Reserve will be easing rather...

"Bond King" and current fund manager at Janus Capital Group Inc (NYSE: JNS) for Janus Global Unconstrained Bond Fund, Bill Gross, recently tweeted: Gross: (1 of 2) QEs worldwide supporting financial assets: ECB + BOJ each $1 trillion + — Janus Capital (@JanusCapital) June 10, 2015 Gross...

Quantitative easing efforts by the European Central Bank have been a tailwind for exchange-traded funds that track European stocks.  While most investors may be swayed towards traditional large-cap offerings such as the Vanguard Europe ETF (NYSE: VGK), the real momentum has been in the...

A recent article in Seeking Alpha focused on the traditional role of some of Wall Street’s biggest players: hedge funds. In the six-year bull market that has taken the S&P 500 to new all-time highs, there has been little need for hedging or protection from a weak stock market. However...

Last week, the European Central Bank began its large-scale bond buying program in an effort to boost the eurozone economy and inject some cash into the region's faltering financial system. So far, the purchases have upped investment and taken some of the region's largest share markets...

In a recent report, Deutsche Bank revealed nine key economic forecasts for 2015. Although the report was focused on the 2015 outlook for Greece, American investors can certainly take advantage of these predictions as well. 1. Greece Will Stay In The Eurozone Analysts believe that Greece will...

Scoreboard It was a green week on Wall Street but it ended on a somewhat sour note. On Thursday, the ECB fired the bazooka they've been promising for two years and it was a whopper topping expectations. The eurozone will benefit from bond buying for an opened ended period of time. This...

The implementation of unprecedented quantitative easing efforts in Europe was officially introduced this week.  In an effort to combat deflation, the European Central Bank will begin purchasing 60 billion euros of sovereign bonds per month through September 2016.  This news roiled the...

The European Central Bank announced on Thursday that it would buy €60 billion worth of government and other bonds every month until September 2016 at the earliest. The announcement was widely expected and caused minimal volatility within share markets, and marked the bank’s first...

This piece contains the opinions of Senior Analyst and Commentator at CNBC Ron Insana that do not reflect the opinions of Benzinga.com. While European Central Bank (ECB), continues to "study" how it plans to tackle deflation on the Continent, it seems the only truly responsible...

Peter Schiff and Ron Insana can agree on one thing: The Federal Reserve probably won’t be able to raise interest rates in 2015. And that’s it. Finished. Done. Complete. From that point on, they disagree on practically everything else. But each has a wealth of knowledge on the...

After Japan released reported worse than expected GDP numbers earlier this week, the country has technically entered into an economic recession. But what exactly is going on in Japan right now? Benzinga asked a few prominent analysts to explain: Slow Growth Economist and author of “...

Former Federal Reserve Senior Officer Thomas Simpson thinks that the Fed is finished with quantitative easing. Simpson is an economist and also been an officer for the Federal Open Market Committee. He recently joined Benzinga’s #PreMarket Prep to talk about why the Fed probably won...

After the Federal Reserve announced the end of quantitative easing, forex trader Lydia Finkley said the U.S. dollar has been trying to stage a breakout. “If you look on the indices it has … but if you against other currencies, particularly the pound, the euro, the [Australian...

Jeff deGraaf is the co-founder, chairman and head technical analyst at Renaissance Macro Research. Three weeks ago, his firm had a call that the 10-year bond market would trade under 2 percent. While the call was for the end of the first quarter, the firm still got it within three weeks....