Fed's Plosser: U.S. housing sector warrants monitoring
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The weak U.S. housing sector warrants close attention to assess the economic outlook as well as its recent disruptive effects on financial markets, Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Plosser said on Saturday.
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Business & money: Fresh evidence emerges over the depth of America's sub-prime mortgage crisis.
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US home prices at record levels don&#39;t signal a national price &#39;&#39;bubble&#39;&#39; because low mortgage rates and prospects for improved job growth will help sustain demand, housing-industry economists said.
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The White House said on Tuesday it was monitoring movements in the financial markets, after a sharp decline in stocks in the United States and around the globe.
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Prospects for a huge downgrade of  subprime-related debt have boosted chances that the Federal  Reserve will need to prop up the U.S. economy with a rate cut  some time in the next year.
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The Fed can do many things, but it canât control the speculative cycle among home buyers.
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The Federal Reserve and other banking regulators issued special guidance Tuesday urging loan service companies to work with borrowers in danger of defaulting on their home mortgages.
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Central banks signaled that rises in  interest rates were less certain than they had indicated just a  few weeks ago as weak U.S. housing data sent fresh shivers  through world markets.
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The U.S. economy should contract slightly in coming months as the ongoing slump in the housing industry takes a deeper toll on the economy, a gauge of future business activity showed Thursday.
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As U.S. home purchases slow, an  expected rise in demand for rentals will result in a spike in  inflation, analysts say, citing studies showing housing costs  have been under-reported by the government.
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Lenders will have to confirm that a borrower can afford a mortgage before making a loan under protections proposed by the Federal Reserve on Tuesday, following defaults and losses on U.S. subprime mortgages this year.
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Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Plosser on Wednesday said that more policy tightening may be needed to keep price rises in check as the economy resumes growth.
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The Federal Reserve proposed new regulations yesterday to clean up a broad array of deceptive mortgage lending practices, a move that represents the central bank's most significant response to the nation's housing tumult.
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U.S. inflation remains well contained but the Federal Reserve is on high alert for signs of any pick-up in prices, top policy-makers said on Wednesday.
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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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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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Investor's Business Daily - Starting in Q4, federal and state regulators will cooperate to review the subprime lending practices of mortgage brokers and nondepository lenders to ensure compliance with consumer protection laws, the Fed said. Many mortgage brokers and thrifts are overseen by state, not federal, regulators. Fed chief Ben Bernanke will likely face criticism for failing to curb lending abuses when he appears before Congress on Wed. and Thu.