open-market operations
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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The Fed would be free to use its balance sheet in more-conventional ways, like using open-market operations to influence the interbank rate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
Zief added: “We wouldn’t be surprised to see similar activity at future month-ends unless the Fed starts adding liquidity through open-market operations — something they’ll likely do, but probably not until early next year.”
From MarketWatch • Dec. 2, 2025
Mills urged the federal government to issue bonds to finance a large public works program, which would be supported by Federal Reserve open-market operations.
From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2012
Morgan Stanley also received $10 billion from the Fed’s single-tranche open-market operations, another emergency-lending program for broker-dealers.
From BusinessWeek • Aug. 22, 2011
Carry on open-market operations in competition with the Federal Reserve System.
From Time Magazine Archive
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