Fed to help US mortgage holders
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The US Federal Reserve is set to agree a range of measures giving mortgage holders more protection.
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The US Federal Reserve makes clear its intention to keep boosting US interest rates as it watches out for the risk of higher inflation.
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Wall Street is looking for a rate cut by the Federal Reserve Bank to help bolster the United States economy and ease problems caused by tightening credit availability.
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Six of the biggest US banks are set to announce plans to offer more help to those struggling with mortgages.
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The US Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates at 5.25% as evidence grows of a slowing economy.
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The U.S. economy can weather a  slowdown in the housing sector as rising incomes and business  investment offer support, Federal Reserve officials said on  Wednesday as they pointed to inflation risks.
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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 said on Tuesday a public hearing on potential new rules to curb abusive home mortgage lending practices would cover prepayment penalties, low documentation loans and consideration of borrowers' repayment abilities.
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Investor's Business Daily - Starting in Q4, federal and state regulators will cooperate to review the subprime lending practices of mortgage brokers and nondepository lenders to ensure compliance with consumer protection laws, the Fed said. Many mortgage brokers and thrifts are overseen by state, not federal, regulators. Fed chief Ben Bernanke will likely face criticism for failing to curb lending abuses when he appears before Congress on Wed. and Thu.
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US central bank chief hints at interest rate cut to ease credit crisis.
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Key economic data from the United States this week may seal the case for the first cut in the federal funds rate in more than four years, which would help ease investor concerns about a fallout from the subprime crisis.
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The Federal Reserve is likely to make one of three moves on interest rates.
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JACKSON, Wyo., Aug. 31 -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said Friday that the central bank was willing to take action to ease damage to the economy from troubled financial markets, and President Bush introduced a plan to help people who are at risk of losing their homes to foreclosure.
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The banking industry is proposing to  members of the U.S. Congress and the White House that some of  the risk of troubled mortgages should be shifted to the federal  government, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal on  Thursday.
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Federal Reserve policy-makers were expected to raise US interest rates on Tuesday for a third time this year, continuing to lift borrowing costs from rock
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The Fed's new subprime mortgage plans don't do enough and do too much at the same time.
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Plan to bail out struggling sub-prime mortgage defaulters soothes troubled financial markets.