Fed makes it four in a row
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: The Federal Reserve on Wednesday nudged US interest rates up a quarter percentage point for the fourth time this year, citing healthier job markets and indicating it will press on with a rate-rise campaign.
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WASHINGTON -- Continuing concerns about inflation underpin the Federal Reserve's stand against changes in interest rates.
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The Federal Reserve yesterday raised its key interest rate for the fifth time since June, signaling that it expects the economy to grow moderately and interest rates to rise gradually in the new year.
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The Federal Reserve raised a key rate for the fourth time in five months, saying that the U.S. economy is gaining steam.
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The US Federal Reserve opts to keep interest rates on hold for the fourth successive month amid signs of a slowing economy.
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Short-term interest rates were raised for the fifth time this year on Tuesday. The Federal Reserve has hiked the base rate a quarter-point to 2.25-percent.
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: Federal Reserve officials are set to jack up interest rates on Tuesday for a fifth time this year, confident the US expansion is self-supporting and no longer in need of rock-bottom borrowing costs for a boost.
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WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve officials are expected to nudge interest rates up tomorrow for a fifth time this year, another small step in a campaign to gradually lift borrowing costs before inflation rears its head.
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The U.S. Federal Reserve on Tuesday  held benchmark interest rates steady at 5.25 percent for a  fourth straight meeting, while renewing a warning that risks  from inflation remain.
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Federal Reserve officials are set to jack up interest rates on Tuesday for a fifth time this year, confident the U.S. expansion is self-supporting and no longer in need of rock-bottom borrowing costs for a boost.
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The US Federal Reserve last night raised interest rates for the third time this year in spite of a renewed surge in oil prices. The widely expected move took the Fed funds&#39; rate up a quarter-point to 1.75%, following similar moves in August and June.
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A fourth interest rate hike may be a foregone conclusion Wednesday but the Federal Reserve&#39;s next move in December is far from certain, and analysts say it&#39;s likely to remain that way for a while.
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The American central bank, the Federal Reserve, Tuesday raised short-term interest rates for the fifth time in six months. Even with the quarter point increase short-term rates are a still-very-low 2.25 percent.
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The Federal Reserve has hiked benchmark interest rates by one-quarter of one percent for the fifth time this year. At the final scheduled meeting of the year the Federal Open Market Committee boosted the federal funds rate to 2.25 percent.
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Federal Reserve policy-makers raised interest rates yesterday for the fifth time this year and suggested they will continue gradual rate increases in 2005.
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The Federal Reserve is expected to nudge interest rates up for a fourth time this year on Wednesday, acting on the belief that the economy has finally emerged from an extended &quot;soft patch.
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While making the expected move, the Federal Reserve suggested that more rate increases are in order in the months ahead.