Quantitative tightening QT continues as the Fed restricts its asset purchases. The Fed’s total assets dropped again by $87 billion in June and by $667 billion since the historic peak in April 2022, according to the latest Fed’s H.4.1 weekly balance. The Fed’s total assets stood at $8.298 trillion, the lowest amount since August 2021. QT started in April 2022, with the downward trajectory in the Fed’s total assets...
Read MoreThe Fed’s Quantitative tightening became a major talking point for traders/investors particularly in the final quarter of 2018. What is Quantitative tightening? Quantitative tightening is a contractionary monetary policy applied by the Fed to reduce the amount of liquidity, sloshing around the financial markets with the aim of unwinding the everything bubble. So Quantitative tightening is, in essence, the reverse of Quantitative...
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