Fed set to raise interest rates again
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WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve officials are expected to nudge interest rates up tomorrow 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 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 &quot;soft patch.
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WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve policymakers are widely expected to raise interest rates to their highest level in three years when they meet Wednesday.
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NEW YORK, September 20  - The US Federal Reserve is expected to raise the interest rates and announce its plans for further rate hikes tomorrow.
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Federal Reserve officials are set to  jack up interest rates on Tuesday for a fifth time this year,  confident the U.S. expansion is self-supporting and no longer  in need of rock-bottom borrowing costs for a boost.
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Description: The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates for the fifth time since June. The quarter-point increase will put the federal funds rate at 2 1/4 percent.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and his central bank colleagues are widely expected to raise short-term interest rates for a fifth and final time this year Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON The Federal Reserve Board raised short-term interest rates Wednesday for the fourth time this year and suggested that it would continue to raise them gradually over the next year.
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THE US Federal Reserve is set to press ahead this week with a further rise in American interest rates, with markets on alert for a signal of the pace and timing of future increases.
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The Federal Reserve would raise interest rates if inflation moved higher, the Fedâs chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, said on Thursday.
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The U.S. Federal Reserve on  Wednesday raised interest rates for a sixth straight time,  extending a policy of gradually lifting borrowing costs to  levels high enough to ward off inflation pressures.
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Federal Reserve officials are set to jack up interest rates on Tuesday for a fifth time this year, confident the U.S. expansion is self-supporting and no longer in need of rock-bottom borrowing costs for a boost.
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Federal Reserve officials raised a key short-term interest rate yesterday for the fifth time this year, and indicated they will gradually move rates higher next year to keep inflation under control as the economy expands.
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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 fact that the Fed is poised to raise interest rates once again signals that the economy may be reviving.
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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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By Tim Ahmann WASHINGTON  - 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.