Spotlight turns on Fed today
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Another dip in the price of oil helped stock market investors withstand a veritable barrage of bad corporate news on Tuesday. Blue chips suffered only small losses, and tech stocks advanced.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, criticized last year for being too tentative in cutting interest rates, has shown he can act boldly. But the Fed's two aggressive rate cuts in the past eight days have left investors demanding still more.
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US stocks were mixed in volatile trading late Wednesday morning as investors awaited the opening of a Federal Reserve interest-rate meeting, traders said.
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The Federal Reserve didn&#39;t surprise anyone yesterday, as its policy-making body increased its key interest rate by one quarter percent, to 2 percent.
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Investors kept one eye clearly focused on upcoming congressional testimony from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday while equities again drove close to record highs.
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Battle lines are drawn at the Federal Reserve between those who favor formal inflation goals and those who don't, and the debate is heating up ahead of the coming retirement of Chairman Alan Greenspan.
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Some analysts are hoping that the Fed will arrive at the conclusion that stronger action is needed to contain the damage from the deterioration of debt markets.
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A day after the Federal Reserve raised short-term interest rates by a quarter point, investors began the trading session today by doing some selling.
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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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All the rate suspense has gone in the last few meetings of the US Federal Reserve&#39;s Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC), which sets the Fed Funds and discount rates.
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The Federal Reserve cut the target on a key short-term interest rate by a half of a percentage point today to 4.75 percent, further acknowledgment from the central bank that the mortgage meltdown plaguing Wall Street and Main Street could have a negative impact on the economy.
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The Federal Reserve&#39;s new wave of interest-rate increases is spilling into consumers&#39; and investors&#39; lives in good and bad ways.
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Financial markets on Wednesday will  pore over the results of an unprecedented $20 billion cash  auction conducted by the Federal Reserve in a search for signs  it is helping soothe troubled credit markets.
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WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve, wanting to keep inflation at bay, is expected to boost short-term interest rates today for the third time this year, a move that would come in the final stretch of the presidential campaign.
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A serious bout of financial market instability has dramatically changed the debate at the Federal Reserve from worries about inflation to concerns about the possibility of a recession.
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WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve, wanting to keep inflation at bay, is expected to boost short-term interest rates for a third time this year today, a move that would come in the final stretch of the presidential campaign.
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The Federal Reserve is primed to push up borrowing costs for the fourth time this year at its meeting on Wednesday, and is unlikely to pause at upcoming meetings