Today marks the last day of the Fed's financial asset purchase program known as QE2. What impact did QE2 have? What should we expect to happen now that it is ending? Traditionally, the Federal Reserve ...

There's probably no better person to assess the state of this economy than Richard Koo, the Nomura economist whose book The Holy Grail Of Macroeconomics is all about the unique nature of a post-crisis ...

NEW YORK – Could the financial markets be heading for a June swoon? The answer likely hinges on what happens after the Federal Reserve's $600 billion effort to boost the economy expires. Some ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Cohan, a Boston-based senior contributor, covers stocks. The Federal Reserve is wrapping up its $600 billion QE2 treasury ...

With the end of June in sight, so too is the end of the latest round of focused quantitative easing from the U.S. Federal Reserve commonly called "QE 2." Assuming that the program ends as planned, the ...

Bob Doll of BlackRock (BLK) is singing his usual bullish tune in his latest commentary. This time, his intention is to calm fears regarding the much-hyped end of QE2. He says the end of the program ...

Now for a trivia quiz. In 2004, the dowager liner of the ocean, Queen Elizabeth 2, was dethroned by her ingenue sister, Queen Mary 2, which took over regularly scheduled trans-Atlantic crossings ...

It's been a good couple of days for Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve. On Wednesday the Fed announced its $600 billion "quantitative easing" experiment, otherwise known as QE2, to goose the economy ...

The death has occurred in Australia of Captain Peter Moxom, who grew up in Falmouth, and served as First Officer on the ...