Bernanke preferred risk of doing too much on rates: report
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The Federal Reserve's move to slash interest rates by a half-percentage point signals that Chairman Ben Bernanke, fearing broad damage from recent market turmoil, preferred to risk doing too much rather than too little, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition.
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Ben S. Bernanke signaled that the Federal Reserve was not inclined to lower interest rates any time soon.
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Ben S. Bernanke said a global âsavings glutâ has helped keep interest rates low, but he expressed concern over trade imbalances between emerging and industrial nations.
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Fed moves don't always mean lower rates for borrowers.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Thursday that the U.S. economic outlook had worsened, and more interest rate cuts may be needed.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Thursday threw his weight behind proposals for near-term actions to stimulate economic growth to ward off an election-year recession -- but warned such a plan could do more harm than good unless put together quickly.
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A slowdown in the US economy could justify a pause in the Federal Reserve&#39;s interest rate increases, Fed Governor Ben Bernanke said on Thursday.
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Ben S. Bernanke and his colleagues at the Federal Reserve will decide today whether to cut interest rates for the second time in a week -- and find themselves in the difficult position of having either to risk cutting rates too much or risk disappointing financial markets and spurring more panic.
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The Federal Reserve may be done raising interest rates, having probably increased  them enough already to cause inflation to fall gradually, an influential central bank policymaker said yesterday.
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U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Friday that Chinese policy-makers risk losing control of their economy unless they let their yuan currency rise in value and strengthen their financial system.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned Congress on Thursday that raising the ceiling on the size of loans that mortgage finance enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can buy could undermine market discipline.
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Some Federal Reserve policymakers worried last month that inflation dangers were growing and that low interest rates might be encouraging excessively risky investments, including speculative home buying.
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Recent credit market turmoil has increased downside risks for the economy, but the U.S. Federal Reserve would refrain from taking action to bail out investors who made bad decisions, top policy-makers said on Thursday.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben  Bernanke said in a letter released on Thursday that  interest-rate policy must be forward looking and rely on the  central bank&#039;s view of how the economy is evolving.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, criticized last year for being too tentative in cutting interest rates, has shown he can act boldly. But the Fed's two aggressive rate cuts in the past eight days have left investors demanding still more.
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan  Greenspan warns in his memoir that if the Fed is to keep the  inflation rate between 1 and 2 percent in coming years it could  be required to force interest rates into double digits,  according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
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Fed Chairman Bernanke struck a familiar chord Wednesday but with some concern about subprime problems spilling into the broader economy.