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QE2: Beware the Perils of its Success

Vitaliy Katsenelson

1 Dec 2010

Over the next eight months the Federal Reserve will conduct QE2 – quantitative easing, the sequel. It will buy $600 billion worth of US long-term bonds in the open market, close to 7% of all Treasury securities in public hands, or about the amount...

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Monitoring the Bull and QE’s Effectiveness

Chris Ciovacco

2 Dec 2010

As we have stated many times, one of the primary objectives of the Fed’s quantitative easing (QE) policy is to attempt to reinflate asset prices in order to improve global balance sheets and restore some semblance of the wealth effect. Some key S...

FS Staff "Must Reads"

• Turkey & Hungary File To Sell Billions in Dollar Bonds
• Chinese Gold Imports Surge By 500% Through October
• Mounting calls for 'nuclear response' to save monetary union
• Default Risk Levels by State
• Federal Reserve made $9 trillion in emergency loans
• U.S. stocks lifted by retail sales, Europe moves
• Euro Is a `Sell Either Way' Irrespective of ECB Policy Moves, SocGen Says
• Pending Sales of U.S. Existing Homes Rise a Record 10%
• ECB Could Send Major Message to World Markets Tomorrow
• Inflation Is Rampant in Tuition, Healthcare and Property Taxes

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COMMODITIES

• » Commodities boom alive and well regardless of global economics - Adrian Day

ECONOMY

• » Data shows fresh signs of improving economy

ENERGY

• » Crude Oil Increases as ECB Delays End of Stimulus, U.S. Retail Sales Gain

GLOBAL/INTERNATIONAL

• » IMF's Strauss-Kahn Says ECB Is Handling Sovereign Debt Crisis `Perfectly'

MARKETS

• » Energy stocks keep the rally alive

METALS

• » Report confirms Valdecanas as ‘world-class silver deposit` - MAG Silver

STORM WATCH

• » Spain Bond Sale Tests Demand After Irish Bailout: Euro Credit

FS Editorials

DEC 02

• Unconventional Measures? by David Moenning
• Pragmatic ECB Squares the Circle by Axel G Merk
• Monitoring the Bull and QE’s Effectiveness by Chris Ciovacco
• The Heresy of Higher Education by Dock Treece

DEC 01

• QE2: Beware the Perils of its Success by Vitaliy Katsenelson
• Factory Activity, Residential Construction, Auto Sales byAsha Bangalore
• The Basics of Political Macroeconomics by Vedran Vuk
• European Contagion by David Kotok
• Irish and Greek Defaults Will Reshape Europe by Jeff Rubin
• Gold, the EU and the Fed by Bruce Krasting
• Insider Selling by Dudley Baker
• European Crisis In The Headlines by Monty Guild Tony Danaher
• Rapidly Escalating Euro Crisis Threatens Financial Armageddon III by Christopher Laird
• Quarterly Market Brief by Christopher Quigley

NOV 30

• Emerging Markets Economic Forecast 2011 by Hans Wagner
• Consolidation Continues by Ryan Puplava CMT
• House Prices - Tip of Iceberg of Housing Market Woesby Asha Bangalore
• Gold Stocks the Focus on GDX by Stewart Thomson
• As The Euro Goes The Way Of The Dodo by Gonzalo Lira
• Uranium Price Hits 2 Year High by Jeb Handwerger

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