Crises may push Fed to cut interest rate
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WASHINGTON - The message from Ben Bernanke and his Federal Reserve colleagues is clear: The housing slump will drag on well into next year as credit problems linger. What's not so apparent is how they'll deal with the crisis, although another interest rate cut could come this week.
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Declining consumer confidence and increasing unemployment might be the impetus the Fed needs to take another whack at interest rates.
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The United States Federal Reserveâs surprise rate cut stemmed losses on the Asian stock markets but heightened fears of a painful recession.
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Interest rate fears add to jitters in financial markets.
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The US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates from 4.75% to 4.5% to help kickstart housing and credit markets.
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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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The U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to chart a new course on Tuesday and cut benchmark interest rates for the first time since mid-2003 to protect the economy from a housing downturn and jittery credit markets.
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After the Fed goes for broke with a dramatic rate cut, what about price pressure?
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Federal Reserve policy-makers worried that a credit crunch could sharply brake economic growth and require big interest rate cuts, according to minutes of the Fed's December 11 policy meeting, released on Wednesday.
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DAVOS, Switzerland  - Business leaders called for more leadership to head off an economic downturn on Wednesday, with some saying an emergency U.S. interest rate cut may have been over hasty and could fuel a new market bubble.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke yesterday signaled that the central bank will cut interest rates aggressively to try to prevent a serious economic downturn, using unusually direct and forceful language.
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Six weeks ago the Federal Reserve cut interest rates, a move that calmed panicked credit markets and sent stock markets soaring. Now investors faced with more troubling data are betting that the Fed will reduce rates again tomorrow.
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Federal Reserve policymakers sit down  on Tuesday for what might be one of their most difficult  interest rate decisions in years.
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Volatility is down and the rough patch could be history if the Fed comes through and lowers rates.
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Monetary policy usually takes some time to bite. That may explain why the European Central Bank has given no indication that it will follow suit after the Federal Reserveâs emergency rate cut.
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An emergency U.S. interest rate cut last week rekindled perceptions the Federal Reserve has a bias to protect the stock market, and a French bank trading scandal has made matters worse.
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A surprise drop in regional factory   activity reported on Thursday suggested that the U.S. economy   may be losing momentum faster than most economists anticipated,   stunning financial markets on the view that the Federal Reserve   may soon have to cut interest rates to avoid a downturn.