Bernanke says no need to lift GSE investment caps
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben  Bernanke, in a letter to Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New  York, said he did not think caps on investment limits for  Fannie Mae  and Freddie Mac  needed to be lifted.
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Rising oil prices will weigh on US economic growth but the increases seen so far will not derail the expansion and need not fuel a troubling inflation, Federal Reserve Board Governor Ben Bernanke said on Monday.
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Wall Street sent Washington a message: the recession that Ben S. Bernanke said can be averted is already here.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben  Bernanke on Thursday threw his support behind efforts to craft  a fiscal stimulus package and repeated that the U.S. central  bank was ready to act aggressively to counter recession risks.
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Swings in volatile  energy and food prices will have minimal impact on inflation as  long as inflation expectations are held steady, Federal Reserve  Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday.
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Rising oil prices will weigh on U.S.  economic growth but the increases seen so far will not derail  the expansion and need not fuel a troubling inflation, Federal  Reserve Board Governor Ben Bernanke said on Monday.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 29 -- Stocks rallied Wednesday as investors took comfort in Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's words that policymakers were "prepared to act as needed" to ease the impact of the financial markets' turmoil on the economy.
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The U.S. economy is poised to expand at a moderate rate and "uncomfortably high" core inflation should ease, but price risks are tilted mostly to the upside, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday.
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The surge in oil prices over the  summer was not enough to derail the U.S. economy and the  central bank sees no reason to pause in its interest-rate rises  just yet, top Fed officials said on Thursday.
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U.S. stock futures were little changed on Friday as investors focused on a pullback in oil prices before manufacturing data and a speech by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke that could give clues about the direction of interest rates.
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Ben S. Bernanke signaled that the Federal Reserve was not inclined to lower interest rates any time soon.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben   Bernanke said in a letter obtained on Friday that chances of an   economic crisis in China were low, but that the possibility of   a "hard landing" for the economy could not be dismissed.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben  Bernanke did not discuss the economy or the outlook for  inflation or interest rates on Friday in brief introductory  remarks at a conference on monetary policy.
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Global factors may on  balance have boosted U.S. inflation, but globalization has not  affected the ability of the Federal Reserve to influence U.S.  financial conditions, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Friday.
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Policy-makers assured nervous investors on Friday that the United States was not heading into recession and recent stock market losses did not warrant central bank intervention.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday a sharp slide in stock markets this week has not changed the Fed's outlook for moderate U.S. growth.
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CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts  - Swings in volatile energy and food prices will have minimal impact on inflation as long as inflation expectations are held steady, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday.