What Happens When QE Meets An Illiquid Market

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Rupert Hargreaves
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What happens when Quantitative Easing (QE) meets an illiquid market? It looks as if the Bank of England just found out. As part of the BoE’s new £70 billion stimulus program, designed to offset any concerns investors may have about the effect of Brexit on the UK’s economy, the BoE announced last week that it is going to acquire a further £60 billion of UK gilts. Koo: QE Has Failed In Europe, The UK And Japan The first auction in this latest wave of central bank easing took place on Tuesday of this week, but it seems that market participants…

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Sign up now and get our in-depth FREE e-books on famous investors like Klarman, Dalio, Schloss, Munger Rupert is a committed value investor and regularly writes and invests following the principles set out by Benjamin Graham. He is the editor and co-owner of Hidden Value Stocks, a quarterly investment newsletter aimed at institutional investors. Rupert owns shares in Berkshire Hathaway. Rupert holds qualifications from the Chartered Institute For Securities & Investment and the CFA Society of the UK. Rupert covers everything value investing for ValueWalk