ECB Balance Sheet: QT Assets Drop by €64 Billion in June, by €3.18 Trillion from Peak, to €3.98 Trillion, Lowest since June 2020 by Wolf Richter • Jul 10, 2025 • 24 Comments It also wrote down its €1 trillion in gold by €30 billion due to its price decline in euros in Q2.
The (Declining) Status of the US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency: Central Banks Diversify into other Currencies & Gold by Wolf Richter • Jul 9, 2025 • 90 Comments There was an extra-special spectacle in Q1 among the Swiss franc, Australian dollar, British pound, and Japanese yen.
Bank of Japan Balance Sheet QT: -¥12 Trillion in Q2, -¥39 Trillion from Peak, to ¥717 Trillion. Sold Nearly All its Bank Stocks by Wolf Richter • Jul 7, 2025 • 28 Comments Quantitative Tightening accelerated further. With its bank stocks gone, the BOJ may start selling its equity ETFs soon.
How the ECB’s Mark-to-Market of its Gold Holdings to €1 Trillion and €3.1 Trillion in QT Affect its Balance Sheet by Wolf Richter • May 28, 2025 • 46 Comments Under QT, the ECB shed €3.1 trillion in bonds and loans. Separately, it wrote up its gold assets by €409 billion, or by 68%, to reflect soaring gold prices.
Japan’s 30-Year and 40-Year Bonds Crater, Yields Spike, Huge Mess Coming Home to Roost. Yen Carry Trade at Risk by Wolf Richter • May 20, 2025 • 115 Comments The BOJ’s QT, inflation that’s higher than in the US, an atrocious fiscal mess, a devalued yen, it all comes together.
Bank of Japan’s QT Accelerates, 2 Years Behind the Fed & ECB, but Now Visibly Part of the QT Party by Wolf Richter • Apr 7, 2025 • 14 Comments BOJ Quantitative Tightening: -¥18 trillion (-$120 billion) in March, -¥27 trillion YoY, to ¥729 trillion total assets, lowest since December 2022.
Status of US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency: Central Banks Diversify into Other Currencies and Gold by Wolf Richter • Mar 31, 2025 • 114 Comments The surge of the “nontraditional reserve currencies.”
ECB Faces a Problem: Euro Area Services Inflation Stuck at 4.0% for 13th Month. CPI Accelerates Further, as Energy & Durable Goods Stopped Plunging by Wolf Richter • Jan 17, 2025 • 21 Comments Inflation far from over. ECB risks throwing fuel on top of it.
Bank of Japan Balance Sheet: QT Takes Off, Assets Drop to Lowest in 15 Months by Wolf Richter • Jan 7, 2025 • 36 Comments Too little too late to help the yen that got mauled by 10 years of rampant QE.
Status of US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency: USD Share Hits 30-Year Low as Central Banks Pile on Other Currencies & Gold by Wolf Richter • Jan 5, 2025 • 109 Comments If the rate of decline over the past 10 years continues, the dollar’s share will sink below 50% by 2034.
