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Central banks
4 guides in Finabase Learn
- Central banks around the world: Fed, ECB, BOJ, BoE and more The policy rates and mandates of the Fed, ECB, Bank of Japan, Bank of England, Bank of Canada and PBOC, and how gaps between them move currencies like USD/JPY.
- Quantitative easing (QE) A central bank buying large amounts of bonds with newly created reserves to push down longer-term interest rates and ease credit.
- Quantitative tightening (QT) A central bank shrinking its bond holdings, usually by letting them mature without reinvesting, to reverse quantitative easing.
- The Federal Reserve: structure, mandate and policy tools How the Fed is organized, what its dual mandate means, the tools it uses to set interest rates, and seven decades of the fed funds rate in one chart.
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