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The stock market seems to have gotten over its … – Business Insider

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In the post-financial-crisis era, a lot of stock-market watchers have attributed the market’s gains to the Federal Reserve’s ultra-easy monetary policy.And these folks had some evidence. They observed that whenever the Fed discontinued a quantitative-easing (QE) program, volatility would spike and stock prices would fall. QE involved the monthly purchases of billions of dollars worth of bonds, an effort […]