Specifies the permitted minimum or maximum quantity of securities that can be delivered to satisfy a TBA trade.
The ECB will buy unlimited quantities of securities whose maturities are three years or less, but sterilise (or offset) the bond purchases with sales elsewhere.
To further stimulate growth, the Fed also embarked on an unprecedented policy of buying vast quantities of securities, which creates reserves that banks can draw to make loans.
We will also demonstrate how, through application of the architecture, large quantities of security-related information can be captured within a single database schema.
Treasury officials have argued that their plan would address the heart of the financial crisis, which is that banks and investment firms are holding vast quantities of securities that have little or no market value.
It appears that asset purchases have the largest impact when financial markets are frozen, so the Fed would need to buy larger quantities of securities to replicate the impact of its earlier purchases.
There are, however, known to be large quantities of securities not yet absorbed by the public which for the time being have to be carried by banks and finance houses.
Holding such large quantities of securities, many of which are of questionable value, unnecessarily exposes taxpayers to losses and heightens the risk of future inflation.
Additional measures such as new electrical cables, natural gas pipelines and renewable energy projects may help, but will not provide the quantity of supply, security and economic advantages of Broadwater.
(vii Put means a financial options contract which entitles the holder to sell, entirely at the holder's option, a specified quantity of a security at a specified price at any time until the stated expiration date of the contract.
The third result would be to improve the balance of our banking structure, making for a larger proportion of sound commercial loans (especially when business again expands) and permitting the repayment of a certain quantity of frozen security loans.
