Fed plans shield for home buyers
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The Federal Reserve on Tuesday will propose a much stricter set of rules for mortgage lenders as part of the central bank's effort to avert abusive lending.
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ST. LOUIS  - The Federal Reserve is monitoring growth and inflation risks and it is too soon to tell if housing troubles will push the economy into recession, one of its top policy-makers said on Wednesday.
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The Federal Reserve cut a key interest rate today, aiming to prevent turbulence in the housing and credit markets from slowing the U.S. economy.
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WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators directed banks on Friday to properly explain the risks posed to borrowers from interest-only and other nontraditional mortgages.
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The Federal Reserve Board and other federal and state regulators announced plans yesterday to review the practices of lenders who are significant players in the troubled subprime home mortgage market, which typically caters to borrowers with blemished credit.
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The threat of higher interest rates is putting off some potential first-time home-buyers, a survey suggests.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is likely to tell Congress this week the central bank is more worried U.S. inflation will flare than it is that housing market turbulence will seriously damage the economy.
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The Federal Reserve Board is  weighing whether it should ban some mortgage lending practices  that fueled the recent housing market boom, Fed governor  Randall Kroszner told a panel of lawmakers Wednesday.
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JACKSON, Wyo., Aug. 31 -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said Friday that the central bank was willing to take action to ease damage to the economy from troubled financial markets, and President Bush introduced a plan to help people who are at risk of losing their homes to foreclosure.
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The Federal Reserve endorsed new rules Tuesday that would give people taking out home mortgages new protections against shady lending practices.
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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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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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WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve policy-makers saw a lessening of economic threats from the housing slump but continued to worry about inflation as they decided last month to leave existing interest rates intact.
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NEW YORK: For years, profligate American consumers have been chided for putting aside nothing for a rainy day. Now, with the Federal Reserve raising interest rates, the prospect that households could start
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The Federal Reserve will  take the necessary steps to shelter the economy from turmoil in  financial markets but will not bail out investors who made  mistakes, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Friday.
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Wall Street investors didn't exactly celebrate the Federal Reserve's emergency rate cut Tuesday, but home owners with expensive lines of credit on their mortgages should jump for joy.
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The Federal Reserve unveiled a proposal, expected to be endorsed later Tuesday, that would give people taking out home mortgages new protections against shady lending practices.