Fed's Pianalto sees little consumer hit from housing
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A slowdown in the United States' housing market may have knocked as much as one percentage point off annual growth, but does not seem to have affected consumer demand much, a top Federal Reserve official said on Monday.
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The record weight of debt being carried by American households and soaring home prices do not represent serious threats to the US economy, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said Tuesday.
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U.S. consumer prices and costs   excluding food and energy both rose a modest 0.2 percent last   month, the government said on Friday in a report that could   reassure the Federal Reserve that inflation pressures are   easing.
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WASHINGTON -- Concerns about inflation trumped worries about the slumping housing market last month in the minds of Federal Reserve officials who voted to hold interest rates steady.
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Housing data and a gauge of business  spending in June released on Thursday signaled slower U.S.  economic growth ahead, leading many to believe the Federal  Reserve is less likely to raise interest rates next month.
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Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank  President Sandra Pianalto said on Thursday the economy has  shifted to a lower growth track given restraints led by weak  housing prices and falling equities prices.
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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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CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts  - Swings in volatile energy and food prices will have minimal impact on inflation as long as expectations of future price gains are held steady, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday.
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ASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (Bloomberg News) â Consumers borrowed less in July than in June, the Federal Reserve reported on Monday.
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The subprime mortgage debt crisis  will have little impact on the U.S. or Asian economies because  that loan market is relatively small and would not create a  ripple effect, Moody&#39;s Investors Service said on Wednesday.
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Fed moves don't always mean lower rates for borrowers.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress on Wednesday housing market woes could dampen an expected pickup in U.S. economic growth, but he restated that the central bank's main worry is inflation.
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A drop in energy costs pulled U.S. consumer prices down last month, but core inflation moved up modestly and housing starts surged, according to data on Wednesday that bolstered expectations for a steady diet of interest-rate rises.
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Interest rates on U.S. 30- and  15-year mortgages fell this week to their lowest levels since  early April as the housing market showed little sign of slowing  despite the Federal Reserve's move to raise interest rates,  mortgage finance company Freddie Mac said on Thursday.
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Why the housing bust and inflation havenât deterred American consumers â yet.
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Monday the United States appears set to weather the bursting of a housing bubble without falling into recession.
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Financial market turbulence has noticeably hurt housing activity across the United States in recent weeks, but has had little effect on other sectors of the economy so far, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday.