Fed's Pianalto sees little consumer hit from housing
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A slowdown in the United States' housing market may have knocked as much as one percentage point off annual growth, but does not seem to have affected consumer demand much, a top Federal Reserve official said on Monday.
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Housing activity has slowed from recent years but the dragdown should not lead to a recession, mortgage finance company Freddie Mac  said on Thursday in its monthly economic outlook.
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Federal Reserve officials believed downside risks to U.S. economic growth had diminished between their May and June meetings, suggesting little likelihood that the current housing market downturn would spark a near-term cut in benchmark U.S. interest rates.
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The jump in retail sales is likely to reinforce the Federal Reserveâs view that the cooling housing market has not hurt the rest of the economy.
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The subprime mortgage debt crisis will have little impact on the U.S. or Asian economies because that loan market is relatively small and would not create a ripple effect, Moody's Investors Service said on Wednesday.
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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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New data showed US inflation in check, with consumer prices up a modest 0.1 percent in August, giving the Federal Reserve room go slow on boosting interest rates.
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Inflation hovering around 3 percent  in the United States since 2005 is too high for comfort in the  longer term, Cleveland Federal Reserve President Sandra  Pianalto said on Wednesday.
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Consumer prices unexpectedly dipped 0.1 percent last month and new home construction hit a 12-year low, data on Wednesday showed, underlining concerns about the country's economic outlook.
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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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Financial market turbulence has  noticeably hurt housing activity across the United States in  recent weeks but other sectors of the economy have so far been  spared, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday.
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Most economists don't think the real-estate bust will lead to a recession.
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Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank  President Sandra Pianalto said on Thursday the economy has  shifted to a lower growth track given restraints led by weak  housing prices and falling equities prices.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday estimated that the decline in housing construction could reduce gross domestic product growth later this year by a percentage point.
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Financial market turbulence has noticeably hurt housing activity across the United States in recent weeks, but has had little effect on other sectors of the economy so far, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday.
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Q4 report, while less than stellar, indicates inflation is not as much of a threat as it appeared.
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The Fed can do many things, but it canât control the speculative cycle among home buyers.