• Also known as High Cash flow
  • During QE, the repo rates are cut, meaning, the lending rate from the central bank to the banks is slashed and which in turn is trickled down to the customer
  • Lower/Affordable interest rates mean more cash flows into the economy, fuelling growth and hence move the market (usually a bull run is triggered in these scenarios)
    • Mostly due to the fact that safe instruments like FDs lower their interest rates during this period and hence more money flows into Equities
  • It also drives inflation eventually
  • QE is done via
    • Printing money by the Central Bank
    • Bond sales
  • Finance stocks in general do well during a QE period
    • Private banks, Public sector banks, NBFCs, AMCs etc