Bonds Yield and Interest Rates as Economic Indicators

If you’d read the news frequently, economist often use key words such as “Bond yields” and “interest rates” as an economic indicator. At first glance, it could be hard to comprehend why these indicators are used to gauge the performance of the economy. In this article I will endeavor to explain the intricacies of such…

ECB Quantitative Easing: What about it?

On the 22nd of January 2015, the European Central Bank (ECB) launched a massive government bond-buying program which will inject hundreds of billions in new money into the euro zone economy. The ECB said that the purchasing of sovereign debt will last about a year and a half from March onwards, till the end of…