open-market operations

British  

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

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Example Sentences

What the Fed wants to avoid is a repeat of the 2019 crisis in overnight funding markets, which led borrowing costs to spike and the central bank to step in by offering open-market operations to pump in daily liquidity and tamp down rates.

From MarketWatch

“Open-market operations were used all the time before the pandemic,” Velis said.

From MarketWatch

Velis said it’s possible the Fed could “test out” the response to renewed open-market operations around “key dates” when liquidity tends to dry up and rates can get out of hand.

From MarketWatch

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