open market operations

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• Open market operations — (also known as OMO) is the buying and selling of government bonds on the open market by a central bank. It is the primary means of implementing monetary policy by a central bank. The usual aim of open market operations is to control the short… …   Wikipedia

• Open Market Operations —    Routine interventions by central banks in financial markets, usually by means of sale or purchase of securities in the domestic money market, in order to influence the volume of money and credit in the economy. The intervention usually… …   Financial and business terms

• open market operations — trade of money and securities between a government and the public …   English contemporary dictionary

• open-market operations — The purchase or sale by a central bank of bonds (gilt edged securities) in exchange for money, with the aim of influencing monetary policy. Buying debt provides liquidity and selling debt reduces liquidity in the private banking sector …   Big dictionary of business and management

• Open Market Operations - OMO — The buying and selling of government securities in the open market in order to expand or contract the amount of money in the banking system. Purchases inject money into the banking system and stimulate growth while sales of securities do the… …   Investment dictionary

• Permanent Open Market Operations - POMO — When the Federal Reserve buys or sells securities outright in order to permanently add or drain the reserves available to the U.S. banking system. Such permanent open market operations are the opposite of temporary open market operations, which… …   Investment dictionary

• Open Mouth Operations — Open mouthed operations are speculative measures taken by the Federal Reserve to influence interest rates and inflation through the sale or purchase of U.S Treasury bonds. Open mouth operations can be thought of as the central bank announcements… …   Investment dictionary

• Operations d'open market — Opérations d open market Au sens strict, les « opérations d open market » ((en) Open Market Operations) consistent en l achat et la vente fermes (c est à dire définitives) de titres, en particulier de titres publics (bons du Trésor) par …   Wikipédia en Français

• open market — ➔ market1 * * * open market UK US noun [S] ECONOMICS ► an economic system where there are no rules about how much of something people can buy and sell: »The EU is meant to be an open market, with no restrictions on purchases and sales within its… …   Financial and business terms

• Opérations d'open market — Au sens strict, les « opérations d open market » ((en) Open Market Operations) consistent en l achat et la vente fermes (c est à dire définitives) de titres, en particulier de titres publics (bons du Trésor) par la banque centrale (et à …   Wikipédia en Français

• Open market — The term open market is used generally to refer to a situation close to free trade and in a more specific technical sense to interbank trade in securities. Use of the term in economic theory In a general sense used in economics and political… …   Wikipedia