Fed's Fisher: U.S. housing downturn a serious problem
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Lower oil prices and a strong U.S. commercial property sector will help offset the serious problem of a cooling housing market, Dallas Federal Reserve President Richard Fisher said in a newspaper interview published on Tuesday.
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The US housing and mortgage downturn is now so acute that a fall in home prices is likely, a key lender warns.
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The weak U.S. housing sector warrants close attention to assess the economic outlook as well as its recent disruptive effects on financial markets, Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Plosser said on Saturday.
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The I.M.F. said a cooling housing market is likely to trigger a slowdown in the United States economy and abroad.
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Dallas Federal Reserve President Richard Fisher on Thursday joined a chorus of officials warning that high inflation ties the hands of the U.S. central bank in its bid to blunt a sharp slowdown in the world's largest economy by lowering interest rates.
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Financial market turbulence has noticeably hurt housing activity 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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An index measuring U.S. house prices suffered its worst decline since its creation 20 years ago, and there is no sign of a bottom for the market, according to a report compiled by Standard and Poor's and economist Robert Shiller.
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The chief executive of Freddie Mac  warned that the U.S. economy faces a 40 percent to 45 percent risk of recession induced by the housing market downturn, the Financial Times reported on its Web site.
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The United States is experiencing a  "significant" housing market downturn but the economy is  fundamentally sound and should avoid recession, Treasury  Secretary Henry Paulson will tell Congress on Thursday.
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Federal Reserve officials on Friday said falling home prices and financial market turmoil are big risks to the U.S. economy but pledged that the central bank would not shrink from taking bold steps to support growth.
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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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Even as the Federal Reserve grapples with the collapse of a speculative bubble in housing is it at risk of repeating recent mistakes?
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A downward spiral of falling house prices and reduced mortgage lending threatens the economy, an economist warns.
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Business & money: Wall Street threatened by crumbling housing market.
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The weak U.S. housing sector warrants  close attention to assess the economic outlook as well as its  recent disruptive effects on financial markets, Philadelphia  Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Plosser said on  Saturday.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress on Wednesday housing market woes could dampen an expected pickup in U.S. economic growth, but he restated that the central bank's main worry is inflation.
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NEW YORK, October 20  - The US Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, does not expect the record high consumer debts and rising home prices to emerge as serious sustained threats to the US economy.