Fed Chiefâs Reassurance Fails to Halt Stock Plunge
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On a day when stocks were pushed down another 3 percent, all major players in Washington agreed on the need for putting extra money into peopleâs hands quickly.
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Investors grew more confident that the Fed will lower interest rates again to ward off recession, but they also wrestled with worries about the upcoming earnings season.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben  Bernanke said in a letter obtained on Friday that chances of an  economic crisis in China were low, but that the possibility of  a "hard landing" for the economy could not be dismissed.
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LINCOLN, Nebraska  - U.S. Federal Reserve   officials expressed guarded confidence on Wednesday that   inflation will ease, but Jeffrey Lacker, the Fed's most   outspoken hawk, was unconvinced.
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Fed chief Bernanke failed to deliver any indications of a rate cut next week, but investors didn't seem to mind.
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WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday that risks from inflation or a worse-than-expected housing slump could further complicate things for an economy that already is in slowdown mode.
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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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The stock market stumbled as Wall Street seemed to grasp that the Federal Reserve is in no hurry to lower interest rates.
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Stubbornly high bond yields discouraged investors from extending Wall Streetâs recovery from last weekâs losses.
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Wall Street retreated Wednesday as investors reacted to guarded testimony by the Fed chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, on the health of the economy.
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Policy-makers assured nervous  investors on Friday that the United States was not heading into  recession and stock market losses did not warrant central bank  intervention.
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JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming  - The Federal Reserve is set to act as needed to limit impacts of financial turmoil on the economy but will not bail out investors who made poor decisions, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Friday.
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U.S. inflation appears to have   decelerated since the last Federal Reserve meeting, convincing   investors the central bank will opt to keep rates steady again   on Wednesday.
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Ben Bernanke has tried hard not to follow his predecessor Alan Greenspan into the political arena by commenting on fiscal policy, but the Federal Reserve chief will find it difficult to stay above the fray this week.
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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's interest rate cuts and injections of liquidity should help stabilize struggling housing and financial markets, and inflation should moderate later this year, Atlanta Fed Bank President Dennis Lockhart said on Friday.
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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.