Fed's Lacker: Tech, Not Trade, Driving Job Trends
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GREENSBORO, N.C.  - Technology improvements, not  trade, have been the driving force behind U.S. wage and job  trends in recent years, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond  president Jeffrey Lacker said on Tuesday.
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The Federal Reserve will keep lifting U.S. interest rates to less stimulative levels but will focus increasingly on economic data as they make their decisions, a raft of Fed officials suggested on Tuesday.
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Federal Reserve policy makers are forecasting slower economic growth, higher unemployment and higher inflation.
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The Federal Reserve is set to change home-loan lending practices that are blamed for pushing the nation into a housing downturn, but the effort is expected to fall short of far more stringent efforts by Congress.
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Amid questions about the economy and the Fed's intentions, sector selection becomes vital.
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What the U.S. Federal Reserve is  taking away from the economy via higher interest rates, the  U.S. Treasury bond market may be giving back -- at least  partially.
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GREENVILLE, South Carolina  - Federal Reserve   Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Thursday the potential   noninflationary growth rate of the U.S. economy has likely   declined due to slower labor force growth.
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Is the Federal Reserve less sanguine about the effect the oil-price spike will have on the economy? Given the run-up in crude prices -- and rising fears that growth could be slowed measurably -- the markets
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Analysis: The Fed and Treasury join forces to explain the state of the U.S. economy.
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In September 1996, Alan Greenspan was fixated on a statistic neglected by most economic forecasters. It was service-sector worker productivity, a measure of how much an employee could produce in an hour.
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U.S. blue-chip stocks declined slightly, while the broader market was flat on Friday as healthy but moderate job growth signaled to investors that the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates steady, while this week's strong rally caused some to take profits.
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Investor's Business Daily - The economy will be "very weak" for several months and grow modestly in '08, but inflation remains a concern, said Richmond Fed chief Jeffrey Lacker. "I am uncomfortable with the inflation picture. ... If energy prices fail to decline, monetary policy decisions will be that much more difficult in 2008," he said. Lacker, who doesn't have a vote in policy decisions this year, is a well-known inflation hawk.
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WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve, under first-year Chairman Ben Bernanke, appears close to achieving the tricky maneuver of steering the U.S. economy to a soft landing.
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The Fed can do many things, but it canât control the speculative cycle among home buyers.
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U.S. industrial output barely edged  up, gaining a less-than-expected 0.1 percent in August, the  Federal Reserve said on Wednesday.
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BusinessWeek Online - November ended with a volley of unfriendly data for the U.S. economy, and it looks as if December is starting out the same way. Weakness in U.S. economic reports released on Dec. 1 concerning the Institute for Supply Management's factory sentiment index, and construction spending -- following the weak releases on durable goods orders, the Chicago purchasing managers' sentiment index, and initial jobless claims earlier in the week -- have taken a big chunk out of the near-term U.S. GDP outlook. But the reports probably won't move the Federal Reserve from its current policy path.
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Stock index futures fell on Friday ahead of monthly employment data seen as critical to the Federal Reserve's next policy decision, while former Fed chief Alan Greenspan signaled alarm about financial markets.