The proportion of mortgage-backed securities also soared. In October 2008 the Fed’s balance sheet had few if any mortgage-backed securities. Today they are one-third of the total.

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Wind power installations in Europe surged in 2017, driven by a frantic investor push to complete projects eligible for feed-in-tariffs before new European state-aid regulations put an end to ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The European Central Bank must carry out a tough balance-sheet test of the euro zone's 130 most important banks before it becomes their supervisor, ECB governing council member ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The European Central Bank must carry out a tough balance-sheet test of the euro zone's 130 most important banks before it becomes their supervisor, ECB governing council member ...