Fed saw need for a pause on rates
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Worries about short-term damage to the economy led Federal Reserve policy makers at their August meeting to halt a more than two-year-old campaign of raising interest rates.
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It was the third month in a row that the bank&#39;s Monetary Policy Committee has frozen the rate. The decision was widely expected following indications that Britain&#39;s economy has slowed.
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Federal Reserve officials worried at their May meeting that inflation could exact a toll on the economy and saw risks of a sharp economic slowdown receding, suggesting interest rates will stay on hold for now.
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WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve policy-makers saw a lessening of economic threats from the housing slump but continued to worry about inflation as they decided last month to leave existing interest rates intact.
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WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve policy makers suggested ''significant&quot; increases in short-term interest rates probably would be needed to keep inflation from becoming a problem, according to minutes of their August meeting that were released yesterday.
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The United States economy faces a significant economic slowdown that should lead the Federal Reserve to ease interest rates, a senior O.E.C.D. official said today.
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The Federal Reserve is expected to lower U.S. interest rates on Wednesday as part of an ongoing aggressive effort to spare the economy from the worst effects of a deep housing slump and credit crunch.
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A new inflation report raised concerns that the Federal Reserve will back away from cutting interest rates again.
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Federal Reserve officials  said on Wednesday they wanted to avoid undermining growth by  raising interest rates too fast, a clear hint that a  half-percentage-point hike was not on the table for June.
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The Federal Reserve will keep lifting U.S. interest rates to less stimulative levels but will focus increasingly on economic data as they make their decisions, a raft of Fed officials suggested on Tuesday.
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U.S. Federal Reserve policy-makers  were unsure how much more they would need to raise interest  rates, if at all, after a May 10 meeting, according to minutes  of that gathering released on Wednesday.
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The Federal Reserve may be done raising interest rates, having probably increased  them enough already to cause inflation to fall gradually, an influential central bank policymaker said yesterday.
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Fed policymakers meeting in early August acknowledged that they might have to act to ease a credit crunch, even as they hoped for 'âa return to more normal market conditionsâ' without an intervention.
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WASHINGTON -- With the economy shifting into a slower gear and inflation apparently retreating, Federal Reserve officials are likely to pat themselves on the back for engineering a soft landing and leave interest rates alone.
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Concerns about inflation trumped worries about the slumping housing market last month by Federal Reserve officials who voted to hold interest rates steady.
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The market stumbled as Wall Street seemed to grasp that the Federal Reserve is in no hurry to lower interest rates.
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Despite a report showing inflation in check, a worsening housing slump and a mixed economic outlook could put the Fed in a tight spot as it considers its next steps.