The Marketplace Report: Fed Interest Rate Talks
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Description: NPR&#39;s Noah Adams talks to Tess Vigeland of Marketplace about the week ahead in business and economics, including Wednesday&#39;s meeting of the Federal Reserve Board to discuss interest rates.
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The U.S. Federal Reserve believed  interest rates were too low to forestall inflation even after  it raised borrowing costs in December, according to minutes of  that meeting released on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON : With little doubt about the Federal Reserve&#39;s plans for a quarter-point rate hike, financial markets were focusing on another question: When will the Fed stop?
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TORONTO (CP) - There&#39;s still optimism for an end-of-year stock market rally - but whether it comes off could be up to the US Federal Reserve, which meets this week to set interest rates and give its latest assessment of the US economy.
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Investor's Business Daily - Even before Tuesday's 0.75% slash in the federal funds rate by the Federal Reserve, mortgage rates had been sliding. Last week's cut pulled down home loan rates more.
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The US Federal Reserve will take another small step this week toward raising interest rates to more normal levels, but may be getting rates up to a point that allows for a pause in increasing them, analysts say.
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BusinessWeek Online - The Federal Reserve decided to hold interest rates steady at its Sept. 20 monetary policy meeting. Economic reports coming out over the next week are likely to back up the Fed's view of the economy and provide more ammunition to keep rates on hold.
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Investor's Business Daily - Chicago Fed chief Michael Moskow said the unexpectedly tight labor market could fuel inflation and the central bank has &quot;a way to go&quot; to bring inflation down to satisfactory levels. Inflation expectations appear to be contained for now, and interest rates, currently at 5.25%, are &quot;appropriate,&quot; said Moskow, who is a voting member of the Fed&#39;s policy-setting committee this year.
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WASHINGTON - The US Federal Reserve on Wendesday raised interest rates by a quarter of percentage point to 2 per cent, a move that was widely predicted by economists.
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The Federal Reserve is likely to announce a quarter-point rise in the federal funds target rate from 1.75 percent to 2.0 percent, economists and traders agree.
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Investor's Business Daily - The central bank auctioned funds to commercial banks at a 3.123% interest rate, the lowest of the 4 TAF auctions that started in Dec. That's not surprising given big Fed rate cuts. Demand was light ahead of the Fed's Wed. policy decision. Chairman Ben Bernanke has said the Fed will hold the auctions as long as needed. Analysts say the auctions have eased bank liquidity fears and high money rates by getting cash to the banks that need them.
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The Federal Reserve on Wednesday resumed a two-day policy meeting that is widely expected to result in a decision to cut U.S. interest rates again to shore up the faltering economy.
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JACKSON, Wyo. - The job market may be in a funk and oil prices may be in the stratosphere, but interest rates probably will climb again in September because the Federal Reserve is confident the economy's "soft patch" is temporary...
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The US Federal Reserve is likely to increase the base interest rate for the fourth time in a year, according to analysts. Last Friday&#39;s employment report for October, which showed an unexpectedly large 337,000
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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - The slew of speeches in the past week by Fed officials have cemented views that the Federal Open Market Committee will raise rates on Sept.
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The next meeting of the US Federal Reserve will dominate markets early in the week as investors look for clues about economic strength and the pace of interest rate hikes.
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The Fed&#39;s Open Market Committee nudged federal funds interest rates up a quarter point to 2 percent. Cisco lost $1.31 to $18.44, after issuing results that met profit expectations but missed sales forecasts.