US Fed official says economic softness &quot;fleeting&quot;
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President of the US Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Jack Guynn said on Wednesday that the soft patch that the US economy hit recently was likely to be short-lived.
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Federal Reserve Board Governor  Susan Schmidt Bies on Monday said the latest batch of U.S.  economic figures showed the economy has gotten past its  mid-year soft patch.
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The dangers of inflation may not yet be over for the United States, despite recent data indicating that price rises have slowed, St Louis Federal Reserve Bank President William Poole said in an interview published on Wednesday.
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While the U.S. economy is at some  risk of a slowdown, it will probably avoid a recession, and any  downturn is unlikely to be severe, Dallas Fed President Richard  Fisher said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON : The Federal Reserve&#39;s policy of gradual interest rate hikes is a sign the US economy does not need the stimulus that low rates supply, according to Cleveland Fed president Sandra Pianalto.
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The Federal Reserve at its May 9  meeting believed that inflation was still the main worry, and  felt that risks the U.S. economy would decelerate abruptly had  diminished, minutes released on Wednesday show.
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MONTERREY, Mexico  - A top U.S. Federal Reserve   official said on Monday the economy is doing well but inflation   remains a concern, in remarks that challenge views the central   bank will cut interest rates early next year.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - San Francisco Federal Reserve President Janet Yellen said on Thursday that current U.S. interest rate policy should promote a gradual drop in inflation, but the recent rapid deceleration in price pressures could be hard to sustain.
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A slowdown in the US economy could justify a pause in the Federal Reserve&#39;s interest rate increases, Fed Governor Ben Bernanke said on Thursday.
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The economic expansion has firmed, yet inflation remains tame, Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan said Wednesday. That buttressed economists' view that the Fed for now will stick with its gradual approach to raising interest rates.
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While the U.S. economy is at some risk of a slowdown, it will probably avoid a recession, and any downturn is unlikely to be severe, Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher said on Thursday.
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Consumer prices barely budged in August, suggesting that inflation isn&#39;t currently a problem for the economy and Federal Reserve policy-makers can stick with a gradual approach to raising interest rates.
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A weak report on retail sales, a key element of US economic activity, fueled nagging doubts about whether a so-called &quot;soft patch&quot; for the US economy is lingering.
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The U.S. economy will linger  through a "soft patch" for the foreseeable future and a  pullback in consumer spending could trigger a recession within  the next two years, according to a widely watched forecast  issued on Wednesday.
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The US economy appears to be emerging from a period of sluggish growth but is &quot;uncomfortably close&quot; to the &quot;stall speed&quot; associated with past recessions, the International Monetary Fund said Friday.
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The U.S. economy will be penalized by  the current crisis in credit markets but the overall outlook  was still benign, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in  a newspaper interview published on Thursday.
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The Federal Reserve at its May 9 meeting believed that inflation was still the main worry, and felt that risks the U.S. economy would decelerate abruptly had diminished, minutes released on Wednesday show.