Fed policy on target, inflation to ebb: Yellen
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Current U.S. interest rate policy  should promote a further drop in inflation although risks are  still skewed toward higher prices, San Francisco Federal  Reserve President Janet Yellen said on Thursday.
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The U.S. Federal Reserve would raise interest rates if inflation moved higher, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Thursday, warning that the economy might be stronger than it appears.
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U.S. Federal Reserve policy-makers started a two-day meeting on Tuesday that was widely expected to conclude with a decision to hold rates steady along with a renewed warning about inflation risks.
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EMERYVILLE, California  - The U.S. housing market   is slowing roughly as the Federal Reserve has expected, San   Francisco Federal Reserve President Janet Yellen said on   Tuesday.
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Ben Bernanke says Federal Reserve is ready to act aggressively if needed to support growth
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A plausible public commitment to pursue low inflation coupled with central bank autonomy make monetary policy more effective, Federal Reserve Governor Ben Bernanke said on Friday.
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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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More U.S. interest rate increases  lie ahead, but they would likely not need to be at a faster  pace because inflation is contained, Federal Reserve officials  said on Friday.
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WASHINGTON - With the economy moving ahead and the nation's payrolls picking up a bit, Federal Reserve policy-makers boosted short-term interest rates for a third time this year - but left economists split about when the next increase might come.    Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and his Federal Open Market Committee colleagues - the group that sets interest-rate policy - increased the target for the federal funds rate from 1.50 percent to 1.75 percent...
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Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said in a speech Thursday that the central bank is prepared to continue lowering interest rates in order to help keep the economy on track.
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The economic expansion has firmed, yet inflation remains tame, Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan said Wednesday. That buttressed economists' view that the Fed for now will stick with its gradual approach to raising interest rates.
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The Federal Reserve is considering several steps to make its deliberations more transparent, but are likely to delay a decision on one of Chairman Ben Bernanke's goals: an explicit inflation target, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen said on Monday that the current turmoil in financial markets has added "appreciably" to downside risks for the U.S. economy.
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Federal Reserve officials, who are debating whether to adopt an explicit target for inflation, have discussed whether an implicit, or "soft" target, might be preferable, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
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SACRAMENTO, California  - San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen said on Friday she still sees upside risks to inflation but that U.S. interest rates were now "well positioned" to bring inflation down.
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The U.S. economy is on track for sustainable above-trend growth, and with monetary policy still accommodative, interest rates will keep rising,  San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen said on Friday.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Friday that being predictable was the cornerstone of running a successful central bank policy.