{"id":5457,"date":"2012-09-13T16:13:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T20:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=5457"},"modified":"2012-09-13T16:13:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T20:13:32","slug":"fed-to-buy-more-bonds-in-bid-to-spur-economy-wsj-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/13\/fed-to-buy-more-bonds-in-bid-to-spur-economy-wsj-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed to Buy More Bonds in Bid to Spur Economy &#8211; WSJ.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By KRISTINA PETERSON, JON HILSENRATH and MICHAEL S. DERBY:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After months of careful signaling, the Fed&#8217;s policy-making committee said it would buy $40 billion each month of agency mortgage-backed securities on an open-ended basis and said it could extend those purchases and buy additional assets if the job market doesn&#8217;t improve.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the outlook for the labor market does not improve substantially, the Committee will continue its purchases of agency mortgage-backed securities, undertake additional asset purchases, and employ its other policy tools as appropriate until such improvement is achieved,&#8221; the Federal Open Market Committee said in a statement issued at the end of its two-day meeting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10000872396390444023704577649602607207034.html?mod=djemalertMARKET\">Fed to Buy More Bonds in Bid to Spur Economy &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I was wrong about the Fed holding off until after the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By KRISTINA PETERSON, JON HILSENRATH and MICHAEL S. DERBY: After months of careful signaling, the Fed&#8217;s policy-making committee said it would buy $40 billion each month of agency mortgage-backed securities on an open-ended basis and said it could extend those purchases and buy additional assets if the job market doesn&#8217;t improve. &#8220;If the outlook for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/13\/fed-to-buy-more-bonds-in-bid-to-spur-economy-wsj-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fed to Buy More Bonds in Bid to Spur Economy &#8211; WSJ.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1352,2827,2831],"class_list":["post-5457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-canada-countries-regions","tag-fed","tag-qe","tag-quantitative-easing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fed to Buy More Bonds in Bid to Spur Economy - WSJ.com - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fed to Buy More Bonds in Bid to Spur Economy - WSJ.com - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By KRISTINA PETERSON, JON HILSENRATH and MICHAEL S. 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