Fed Saw Danger of Credit Crunch
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WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve policymakers meeting in early August recognized that a spreading credit crunch could pose a danger to the country's economic health and that they might have to take action eventually.
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Federal Reserve policy-makers on  Friday indicated they are still wary about the potential upside  risks to inflation despite signs that price pressures may be  abating.
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Many U.S. banks have made it harder for creditworthy borrowers to get a mortgage, according to a Federal Reserve survey released Monday that underscored the spread of a painful credit crunch.
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Some Federal Reserve policymakers worried last month that inflation dangers were growing and that low interest rates might be encouraging excessively risky investments, including speculative home buying.
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San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen said on Monday that the current turmoil in financial markets has added "appreciably" to downside risks for the U.S. economy.
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WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday that risks from inflation or a worse-than-expected housing slump could further complicate things for an economy that already is in slowdown mode.
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ST. LOUIS  - The Federal Reserve is monitoring growth and inflation risks and it is too soon to tell if housing troubles will push the economy into recession, one of its top policy-makers said on Wednesday.
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The UK remains vulnerable to further shocks from the credit crunch, the Bank of England warns.
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A Federal Reserve governor, Kevin M. Warsh, said Friday that the Fed should be âextremely waryâ of protecting banks or investors from losses resulting from the sell-off in credit markets.
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The global credit crunch, created by  uncertainty about the size of losses in the U.S. mortgage  market, will curb euro zone economic growth in coming quarters,  the European Commission said.
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Interest rate fears add to jitters in financial markets.
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San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen said on Monday that financial turmoil had "appreciably" increased risks facing the U.S. economy, but other Fed officials said it was unclear if the economy had taken a turn for the worse.
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The weak housing market  could topple the country into a full-blown recession and the  Federal Reserve should slash interest rates aggressively, one  of the country&#39;s most prominent economists warned on Saturday.
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The U.S. economy can weather a  slowdown in the housing sector as rising incomes and business  investment offer support, Federal Reserve officials said on  Wednesday as they pointed to inflation risks.
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Barclays  and Royal Bank of  Scotland  have lined up emergency funds of up to $30  billion from the U.S. Federal Reserve to bail out American  clients caught up in the global credit crunch, a paper said.
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Investors were concerned that the U.S. credit crisis would crimp demand among U.S. consumers for Asiaâs exports.
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Financial market turbulence leading to tighter mortgage lending standards noticeably hurt housing activity in most Federal Reserve districts in recent weeks, adding uncertainty about the recovery of the downtrodden housing sector, the Fed said on Wednesday.