™Central-bank asset purchases can alter reserves and financial conditions; they do not mechanically force every stock price to rise.
Economics
Quantitative easing (QE)
Central-bank asset purchases intended to influence financial conditions and longer-term interest rates.
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Asset purchases are a monetary-policy operation, not a direct grant of stock-market profits or equivalent to fiscal spending.
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