Quantitative easing stock market graph
A lot of stock indexes seem to be steeply increasing in price in the last couple of years. For example S&P500 but also lesser known indexes like ATX. Is this the more or less direct result of quantitative easing? Is it also a result of low interest rates? Will this trend end, once world banks decide to increase interest and stop quantitative QE2 ends, with no immediate plans for a third round of quantitative easing. Since QE2 ended, stock prices have been fairly volatile, with the S&P 500 ranging from a high of 1353.22 on 7 July 2011 to a low of 1099.23 on 3 October 2011. The Fed launched quantitative easing nine years ago in the midst of the global financial crisis. Here are four charts showing what's happened since then. Stock Quotes, and Market Data and