Interest rate rise expected this week
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WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve policymakers are widely expected to raise interest rates to their highest level in three years when they meet Wednesday.
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Washington - Casting aside fears about weak job creation and tepid holiday sales, the US appeared set to raise interest rates tomorrow for the fifth consecutive time.
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The Federal Reserve is widely expect to raise the federal funds rate at its Sept. 21 policy meeting after a moderate increase in August payrolls.
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Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan  will hog the limelight in financial markets this week as  investors seek clues on how quickly U.S. interest rates will  rise as soaring oil prices start to affect economic activity.
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US interest rates are expected to rise by a quarter percentage point to 2.25% following a US Federal Reserve meeting later on Tuesday.
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The Federal Reserve is expected to  lift interest rates again this week to 5.25 percent in its  seventeenth straight quarter percentage point hike and signal  that further increases may be needed to keep inflation at bay.
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The Bank of Japan will raise interest rates next week for the first time in nearly six years in a sign that the Japanese economy is gaining momentum, news reports say.
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The Bank of England is expected to keep interest rates at 4.5% on Thursday - but another rise is expected before too long.
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The pound continued to gain as market participants became increasingly confident that the Bank of England will raise interest rates in November, with some risk that they could raise rates as early as this week.
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The pound has firmed on talk that the Bank of England could spring another surprise interest rate rise on the market on Thursday, although the consensus view remains that the next move is most likely to be in November.
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The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates for a third time in three months Tuesday when policy-makers hold their final planned meeting before the November election.
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The Bank of England is widely expected to leave interest rates unchanged at 4.75 percent on Thursday after recent signs that a string of hikes have started to douse the red-hot housing market.
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U.S. stock futures pointed to a higher   opening on Monday, extending last week's gains, on expectations   the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates unchanged.
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The Federal Reserve will raise interest rates Tuesday. It is a done deal. The Fed has been strongly hinting for months that it would raise short-term rates back to more normal levels. At the same time there has been an assumption in the financial markets that long-term rates -- the ones that determine mortgage rates -- would be rising as ...
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: Federal Reserve officials are set to jack up interest rates on Tuesday for a fifth time this year, confident the US expansion is self-supporting and no longer in need of rock-bottom borrowing costs for a boost.
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The US Federal Reserve is likely to increase the base interest rate for the fourth time in a year, according to analysts. Last Friday&#39;s employment report for October, which showed an unexpectedly large 337,000
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The US Federal Reserve will take another small step this week toward raising interest rates to more normal levels, but may be getting rates up to a point that allows for a pause in increasing them, analysts say.