bond-buying

So just how much bond buying would the U. S. central bank have to do to get reticent consumers spending again?

Still, the scale of Chinese bond-buying is unclear; certainly, it has not been enough to assuage the panic in the markets.

Mario Draghi, the president of the ECB, has officially ruled out a vast expansion of its bond-buying programme.

The economic risk is that it is uncertain how much ECB bond-buying will achieve.

It also isn't clear how much impact additional bond buying would have on the economy and job growth.

Bernanke said the Fed had to launch the bond-buying program, given the outlook for weak growth and persistently high unemployment.

The Fed meets next week and details of any bond-buying program are expected to be announced when the meeting wraps up Nov.

Also adding fuel to the recovery is the Federal Reserve's bond-buying program, though the economists said the effect may not be large.

This marks a second round of bond buying by the Fed in an effort to drive down interest rates, a policy known as quantitative easing.

The Federal Reserve's decision to spur the economy with a $600 billion round of bond buying was among the most controversial in its history.

But if the ECB were to embark on unlimited bond buying, the sums involved would be too vast to withdraw.

Europe's central bankers are desperate for it to take over the bond-buying duties if markets stay skittish over Italy and Spain.

The market impact is likely to be muted for now, given the Federal Reserve's bond-buying under its "quantitative easing" programme.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the Fed is weighing a more open-ended, smaller-scale bond buying program.

But there is still scope for monetary easing in the form of bond-buying programmes, financed with newly created money.

Italy's yields could have been even higher, except for another reported round of bond-buying by the European Central Bank.

Amid its massive bond-buying program, a fiery debt debate in Washington, and a declining dollar, people simply don't trust the Fed.

This should go some way to placate hawkish ECB members who disagree with the Bank's bond-buying programme.

The deal allowed the ECB to press ahead with its bond-buying plan, and the package of EU measures has helped quell the panic.

But it may be that he has more sympathy for the ECB's bond-buying policy than his predecessors, as does today's opposition SPD.

The European Central Bank (ECB) let it be known that it would support Spain and Italy by expanding its bond-buying programme.

The Fed would welcome the growth but doesn't want to be seen as facilitating deep long-run deficits with its bond-buying plans.

Even so, Ms. Merkel remains skeptical of all-out ECB bond buying, say people familiar with her thinking.

The U. S. central bank said high unemployment still justified its $600 billion bond-buying program to aid the recovery.

There's no question the U. S. economy will slow once the Federal Reserve winds down its daily bond-buying program on June 30, Duncan said.

If the ECB were to end that bond buying program, Spanish debt would shoot well past that 7% threshold.

A commentary Sunday by the official Xinhua news agencycast doubt on the wisdom of the whole bond-buying enterprise.

But last week a more modest bond buying effort failed to halt the European slide.

Germany, meanwhile, fears larger-scale ECB bond buying could fuel inflation and jeopardize the central bank's political independence.

But many Republicans genuinely equate Fed bond-buying with reckless government activism leading to rampant inflation.

It justifies its limited bond-buying as necessary for smooth workings of its monetary policy.

The Fed has said it would review its bond-buying plans as the economic recovery evolves.

As well, the Federal Reserve on Thursday ended its $600 billion bond-buying program.

Yet back in March 2009 Mr. Bernanke told Mr. Pelley that the Fed was printing money to fund an earlier bond buying program.

Investors will look for clues about the direction of monetary policy when the Fed's bond buying program ends in June.

But rates are pretty low, and the ECB is reluctant to stray into the fiscal realm with much more government-bond buying.

Officials at the ECB rationalize the central bank's bond-buying as essential to the conduct of monetary policy.

Officials at the ECB rationalise the central bank's bond-buying as essential to the conduct of monetary policy.

ECB bond-buying is also politically risky, especially if carried out on a big enough scale to work.

On Monday, Sarah Palin took aim at the Fed, calling on Mr. Bernanke to 'cease and desist' on the bond-buying program.

As such, the level of ECB bond buying could become almost directly influenced by the political and policy decisions in member states.

He added that the bond-buying programme was not QE, which helped the euro find its footing.

To some, this is a preview of what is going to happen when the Federal Reserve ends its bond-buying program less than two months from now.

If the economy keeps improving, then the Fed's bond-buying program could end sooner than expected.

The options go beyond another bond-buying program, which has become the center of the market's attention.

U. S. investors are worried about the Federal Reserve's "quantitative easing" plan of bond buying, which ends in June.

He also announced that the Fed's controversial $600-billion bond-buying program would end in June as planned.

Stock prices have rallied since Mr. Bernanke broached the idea of bond buying in late August.

His comments on Thursday indicated that the ECB could ramp up its bond buying programme after a European summit on December 9.

In the meantime the European Central Bank should dust off its bond-buying programme.

Its latest effort to spur the economy, the $600 billion bond buying program, has gotten mixed reviews.

Moreover, European Union treaties need not limit ECB bond buying.

It is likely to require further large-scale bond-buying by the ECB.

The ECB resumed bond buying on August 4, after a four-month pause, as the crisis spread to Italy and Spain.

In return for being rid of its thankless bond-buying programme it can offer to repo any EFSF bond at par, securing a liquid market.

The credibility issue is central for skeptics of ECB bond buying.

The ECB might launch a programme of bond-buying on the pretext that a deep recession in the euro area threatens deflation.

Central-bank bond-buying would fuel inflation.

But such bond-buying is a temporary palliative.

But Mr. Draghi isn't expected to change his stance just on ECB bond-buying, the policy that economists say really matters.

Wednesday's flurry of bond buying could end up hurting the upcoming 30-year bond sale.

The bond-buying program is known in some corners as quantitative easing.

The bond-buying program sparked a rally for U. S. stocks in the final quarter of 2010.

Is the Federal Reserve printing money to finance its bond buying?

Wall Street hopes it will mark the onset of "QE3" , another big bout of bond-buying.

But he wouldn't back massive bond-buying, Mr. Taylor insists.

A $600 billion bond-buying program ended in June.

Mr Bond estimates current central bank bond buying has cut 10-year US Treasury yields by between 50 and 100 basis points.

This is why the Financial Times has accepted the need for bond buying in extremis.

This is the Fed's second experiment with a big bond-buying program.

The Fed launched the bond buying program late last year in an effort to keep interest rates low and strengthen the economy.

And with oil prices down from last year, bond buying by oil producing countries may slow.

The $600 billion bond buying program started by the Fed last year will end as scheduled by month's end.