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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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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A drop in energy costs pulled U.S.  consumer prices down last month, but core inflation moved up  modestly and housing starts surged, according to data on  Wednesday that bolstered expectations for a steady diet of  interest-rate rises.
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ST. LOUIS  - Stress in the subprime mortgage market does not look great enough to derail consumer spending, St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President William Poole said on Friday.
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CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts  - Swings in volatile energy and food prices will have minimal impact on inflation as long as expectations of future price gains are held steady, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday.
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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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WASHINGTON -- A painful credit crunch is taking its worst toll on the already ailing housing market, while its impact on the rest of the national economy at least so far seems limited, the Federal Reserve reported Wednesday.
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A painful credit crunch is taking its worst toll on the already ailing housing market, while its impact on the rest of the economy so far seems limited, the Federal Reserve reported Wednesday.
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U.S. consumers are in good financial  shape, a top Fed official said on Monday, dismissing fears that  high levels of household debt are unsustainable.
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The U.S. economy should expand modestly in coming months, a gauge of future business activity showed Thursday, indicating consumers and businesses may be shrugging off the weak housing market.
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Consumer prices barely budged in August, suggesting that inflation isn&#39;t currently a problem for the economy and Federal Reserve policy-makers can stick with a gradual approach to raising interest rates.
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NEW YORK  - The U.S. economy is forecast to slow slightly next year, and inflation is expected to ease from this year's pace, the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank said on Tuesday.
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The Fed can do many things, but it canât control the speculative cycle among home buyers.
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Why pains plaguing the housing market won't affect the commercial real estate market.
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The U.S. economy can weather a  slowdown in the housing sector as rising incomes and business  investment offer support, Federal Reserve officials said on  Wednesday as they pointed to inflation risks.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson  said on Tuesday that a weakened housing market will not have a  major impact on the U.S. financial sector, which he described  as quite healthy.
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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.