open market operations definition

open market operations

Market interventions by a central bank to manipulate liquidity levels by buying or selling short term securities. When it sells the securities, the central bank soaks up the liquidity, and when it buys them it injects liquidity in the local economy.

open market operations is in the Economics, Politics, & Society subject.

open market operations appears in the definition of the following term: treasury bill (T-bill)

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