Street frets about inflation, interest rate may rise
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NEW YORK - Stocks are surging, businesses appear to be hiring and a pro-business administration is about to start a second term in the White House.
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Stocks could move higher next week  after a bond market rout led investors to wonder if the threat  of inflation was on the horizon or if the economy was actually  stronger than expected, and good for stocks.
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U.S. interest rates may not be high enough to quell a recent bout of inflation, Philadelphia Federal Reserve President Charles Plosser said on Thursday.
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Stocks rose slightly on Thursday as  inflation data suggesting the Federal Reserve will not stray  from its course of measured interest rate hikes encouraged  investors.
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Battle lines are drawn at the Federal Reserve between those who favor formal inflation goals and those who don&#39;t, and the debate is heating up ahead of the coming retirement of Chairman Alan Greenspan.
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A DOVISH inflation report from the Bank of England yesterday further fuelled talk that interest rates have now peaked amid concerns from the central bank that a decline in house prices might be sharper than expected.
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The Federal Open Market Committee,  the rate-setting panel for the U.S. Federal Reserve, began its  deliberations Wednesday with a rate hike widely expected.
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Faced with a strengthening economy and scant signs of runaway prices, the Federal Reserve appeared set to keep interest rates steady on Wednesday while keeping up a verbal guard against potential inflation.
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Some Federal Reserve policymakers worried last month that inflation dangers were growing and that low interest rates might be encouraging excessively risky investments, including speculative home buying.
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The dollar may rise for a second day against the euro in Asia on speculation Federal Reserve policy makers will raise the key interest rate in a meeting today and signal more increases to come.
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Tuesday&#39;s meeting could hold clues to whether it&#39;ll be a November or December pause in rate hikes. By Chris Isidore, CNN/Money senior writer.
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After a Monday off-day, investors will get a slew of reports next week, including a key U.S. inflation reading.
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EYES ON THE FED The main news of the week will be the Federal Open Market Committee meeting, at which the central bankers are widely expected to keep interest rates steady (Wednesday). Last weekÂs news that the Consumer Price Index had risen 0.2 percent in August, down from 0.4 percent in July, looked to some economists like validation that inflation was slowing, a trend that would not tempt the Fed to raise rates. But the Producer Price Index for August also comes out this week, helping to inform any decision (Tuesday). Other reports this week will include the second-quarter current-account deficit (Monday), August housing starts (Tuesday) and leading economic indicators (Thursday).
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Investors are hoping the coming week  brings some answers to the question of whether an improving  U.S. economy unleashes inflationary forces, and one place to  look will be in the June payrolls data.
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U.S. stocks rose slightly on Thursday   after news that a key inflation gauge rose less than expected,   soothing concerns about future interest rate hikes.
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Federal Reserve policy-makers suggested that &quot;significant&quot; increases in short-term interest rates probably would be needed to keep inflation from becoming a problem, according
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Investor's Business Daily - U.S. inflation expectations are "quite well anchored," giving the central bank breathing room for further possible rate cuts, but there is no clear evidence that a recession is at hand, said St. Louis Fed Pres. Wil-liam Poole. Poole does not have a vote on the Fed's rate-setting panel this year and will retire in March.