open-market operations

plural noun

1. finance the purchase and sale on the open market of government securities by the Bank of England for the purpose of regulating the supply of money and credit to the economy

Example Sentences

Open-market operations, in which central banks buy and sell securities, used to focus on debt maturing in less than three months; now they cover bond yields at much longer maturities.

From Economist

To counteract that, the central bank has been injecting billions of renminbi through open-market operations.

From New York Times

China’s central bank, which flooded the country’s financial system with cash ahead of the Lunar New Year, said this past week it would now conduct so-called open-market operations on a daily basis, a change from its twice-weekly practice, and a sign it would be able to respond quickly to any liquidity squeezes.

From Wall Street Journal

This included 315bn yuan in open-market operations, a sum was much larger than it provided ahead of the holiday period last year.

From The Guardian

And just as central banks in the rich world use open-market operations—buying and selling domestic assets on a daily basis—to influence short-term interest rates, so can those in the developing world.

From Economist