Sterilized Intervention

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A method of sterilization carried out by a country's federal reserve or central bank to counteract the effects of exchange-market interventions on domestic money supplies by offsetting the purchases or sales of domestic assets.

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Sterilized intervention is a way for a country to alter its debt composition without affecting its monetary base. It is used as a tool to counter undesirable exchange-rate movements.

Sterilized intervention

Foreign exchange market activity by which monetary authorities insulate their domestic money supplies from the foreign exchange transactions with offsetting sales or purchases of domestic assets.

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