Fed's Lockhart: Fed actions should steady markets
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The Federal Reserve's interest rate  cuts and injections of liquidity should help stabilize  struggling housing and financial markets, and inflation should  moderate later this year, Atlanta Fed Bank President Dennis  Lockhart said on Friday.
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Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank Dennis  Lockhart on Monday stepped back from his assertion last week  that housing woes had so far not clearly affected the broader  economy, but said weak jobs data should be evaluated in tandem  with strong retail sales.
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St. Louis Federal Reserve President  William Poole said on Friday the Federal Reserve will respond  to persistent inflation with policies that keep it from  increasing further.
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Ben S. Bernanke said the Federal Reserve was âprepared to act as neededâ to prevent market woes from spreading while the Dow closed up nearly 250 points as investors went bargain-hunting.
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U.S. stocks were little changed on Monday as investors kept cautious a day before a Federal Reserve rate-setting meeting expected to keep rates unchanged.
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The Federal Reserve could keep   benchmark interest rates steady for some time given its focus   on pulling down inflation, said Paul McCulley, managing   director of the bond fund PIMCO.
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U.S. Federal Reserve officials are  expected to hold interest rates steady on Wednesday, but they  are also seen renewing an inflation warning even while taking  stock of cooler economic growth.
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Faced with a strengthening economy  and scant signs of runaway prices, the Federal Reserve appeared  set to keep interest rates steady on Wednesday while keeping up  a verbal guard against potential inflation.
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Consumer prices calmed in November, helped by smaller hikes in energy and food. That means the Federal Reserve probably will continue raising interest rates only gradually to keep inflation under control.
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Investor's Business Daily - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke offered the market some soothing words Wednesday to counter consumer price and housing data that raised concerns about inflation and an economic slowdown.
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The Fed chief said he saw little cause for alarm in either the previous dayâs stock market plunge or new evidence of slowing economic growth.
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The US economy is following the Federal Reserve script for an orderly slowdown, with inflation cooling enough to allow the central bank to keep rates steady for a second consecutive session, analysts say.
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U.S. Federal Reserve policy-makers   started a meeting on Wednesday at which markets expect them to   hold interest rates steady, while renewing inflation warnings   and delivering an assessment of cooler economic growth.
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Federal Reserve policy-makers meeting for a second day on Thursday look set to hold borrowing costs steady as they monitor risks that U.S. inflation could rekindle and that economic growth may stall.
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Stocks opened little changed on Wednesday on caution before the results of the Federal Reserve's $20 billion money-market stabilization effort. The results of the Fed's auction on Monday will be announced shortly.
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Ben S. BernankeÂs remarks reaffirm the view that the Fed will keep the lending rate unchanged at 5.25 percent for the remainder of the year.
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The U.S. Federal Reserve on Tuesday  held benchmark interest rates steady at 5.25 percent for a  fourth straight meeting, while renewing a warning that risks  from inflation remain.