Fed aims to ease credit strains with cash auction
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Financial markets on Wednesday will pore over the results of an unprecedented $20 billion cash auction conducted by the Federal Reserve in a search for signs it is helping soothe troubled credit markets.
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The Federal Reserve, wanting to keep inflation at bay, is expected to boost short-term interest rates for a third time this year on Tuesday, a move that would come in the final stretch of the presidential campaign.
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The Federal Reserve is providing the loans as part of an unprecedented auction process to ease a global credit crisis and make sure financial institutions can keep lending to customers.
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For the first time in more than four years, the Federal Reserve appears ready to lower interest rates to prevent a housing meltdown and a painful credit crunch from driving the economy into a recession.
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The Federal Reserve on Tuesday  slashed benchmark U.S. interest rates by a hefty three-quarters  of a percentage point in an emergency bid to lend support to a  weak U.S. economy faced with increasing turmoil in global  financial markets.
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The Federal Reserve is likely to make one of three moves on interest rates.
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JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming  - The Federal Reserve is set to act as needed to limit impacts of financial turmoil on the economy but will not bail out investors who made poor decisions, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Friday.
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The action by the European bank eases conditions in credit markets that are grappling with a lending squeeze linked to the U.S. housing downturn and traditional year-end demands for cash.
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The Federal Reserve is set to change home-loan lending practices that are blamed for pushing the nation into a housing downturn, but the effort is expected to fall short of far more stringent efforts by Congress.
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Recent action by the Federal Reserve is likely to calm troubled  U.S. markets, but inflation remains a worry, a top U.S. central bank official said on Friday.
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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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The US Federal Reserve is set to agree a range of measures giving mortgage holders more protection.
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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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The Federal Reserve on Tuesday slashed benchmark U.S. interest rates by a hefty three-quarters of a percentage point in an emergency bid to lend support to a weak U.S. economy faced with increasing turmoil in global financial markets.
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The Federal Reserve issues another $20bn of credit to ease money markets hit by the global lending squeeze.
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WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve and other banking regulators issued special guidance Tuesday urging loan service companies to work with borrowers in danger of defaulting on their home mortgages.
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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.