Open market operation (OMO) is a term that refers to the purchase and sale of securities in the open market by the Federal Reserve (Fed). The Fed conducts open market operations to regulate the ...

means that the Fed makes outright purchases of securities from primary dealers for its own portfolio, known as the System Open Market Account (SOMA). The Fed says it usually uses these permanent ...

The terms "purchase" and "sell" refer to actions of the Fed, not the public. For example, an open market purchase means the Fed is buying, but the public is selling. Actually, the Fed carries out ...

RBI OMO Purchase News: Reserve Bank of India has announced to conduct open market operations (OMO) purchase auctions of Government of India securities in May 2025. The central bank go for such ...