Fed nudges up key interest rate
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The Federal Reserve yesterday raised its key interest rate for the fifth time since June, signaling that it expects the economy to grow moderately and interest rates to rise gradually in the new year.
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The Federal Reserve boosted a key short-term interest rate by one-quarter percentage point today, marking the third increase this year.
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With a fall in oil prices easing inflation concerns, the Federal Reserve is expected to continue its easy-does-it approach to raising interest rates, boosting a key rate by a moderate quarter-point at its final meeting of the year Tuesday.
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Federal Reserve officials raised a key short-term interest rate today and indicated they will continue lifting rates gradually this year to keep inflation in check as the economy grows.
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The Federal Reserve is expected to nudge interest rates up for a fourth time this year on Wednesday, acting on the belief that the economy has finally emerged from an extended "soft patch."
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Federal Reserve officials, citing recent signs of economic improvement, raised a key short-term interest rate Tuesday for a third time this year and signaled that they are
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The Federal Reserve raised U.S.  interest rates on Tuesday by a quarter-percentage point for the  fifth time this year and said it will keep gradually lifting  them from rock-bottom levels as the economy grows.
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NEW YORK, September 21  - The US Federal Reserve raised the interest rates by a quarter percentage point today, in-line with the broad expectations.
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WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve policy-makers boosted interest rates for a third time this year, and economists believe there probably will be another increase before the year is over depending on how the economic expansion unfolds.    Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and his colleagues pushed up the target for the federal funds rate to 1.75 percent on Tuesday, the third quarter-point upward jog since June...
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THE US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates for the fifth time since June and signalled it was likely to keep pushing them higher at a &quot;measured&quot; pace in the new year.
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The Federal Reserve appears poised to continue raising interest rates for most if not all of this year.
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The Federal Reserve raised short-term interest rates on Wednesday and signaled that it intends to keep raising rates in the months to come.
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The US Federal Reserve raises rates for the fifth time this year, taking them a quarter percentage point higher to 2.25%.
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WASHINGTON - The US Federal Reserve Board late yesterday boosted short-term interest rates for the fifth time in a row, warning of higher rates next year as it abandons easy money to head off inflation.
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: Federal Reserve officials are set to jack up interest rates on Tuesday for a fifth time this year, confident the US expansion is self-supporting and no longer in need of rock-bottom borrowing costs for a boost.
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Federal Reserve officials are expected to nudge interest rates up on Tuesday for a fifth time this year, another small step in a campaign to gradually lift borrowing costs before inflation rears its head.
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The U.S. Federal Reserve will take another small step this week toward raising interest rates to more normal levels, but may be getting rates up to a point that allows for a pause in increasing them, analysts say.