Fed Speakers Air Differences on Rates
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Possible differences on Federal Reserve  monetary policy emerged on Tuesday when two regional Fed  presidents downplayed the risk of inflation while a third urged  greater vigilance against rising prices.
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(160 sec.) Opposing market trends are creating a question mark about whether or not the Fed will raise rates September 18, 2007.
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Federal Reserve policy-makers believed at their September meeting that more interest rate increases would be needed to make sure inflation remained under control, but they said future moves should be tied closely to the economy's overall performance, according to the minutes of their discussions.
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FREDERICK, Maryland  - Richmond Federal Reserve Bank President Jeffrey Lacker said on Wednesday that figures on inflation excluding food and energy prices have fluctuated, and it is hard to say if core inflation is on a downward path.
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Some quotes from the Senate Banking Committee's hearing on the economy, with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Christopher Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission:
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U.S. Federal Reserve officials  approach a key meeting next week worried both about not raising  interest rates enough to avert inflation and doing more than is  needed at the expense of economic growth.
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WASHINGTON - Going against conventional wisdom, the Federal Reserve is raising interest rates in an election year. And it is Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, a Republican, who is leading the charge even though an incumbent Republican in the White House is facing voter unrest about the state of the economy...
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Federal Reserve's vice chairman  acknowledged on Saturday that the central bank's message had  been clouded by a difference of opinions being voiced by  policy-makers, but warned markets to learn to live with it.
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If slowing US productivity growth is not accompanied by slimmer corporate profits, the Federal Reserve may have to raise interest rates faster than is now expected, Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker said on Monday.
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Economic wise men, from Ben Bernanke to Robert Rubin, weighed in on the economy Thursday.
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Stocks were mixed Wednesday as Federal Reserve policymakers met and investors looked ahead to another hike in interest rates. In early afternoon trading, the Dow Jones industrial
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Federal Reserve's vice chairman acknowledged on Saturday that the central bank's message had been clouded by a difference of opinions being voiced by policy-makers, but warned markets to learn to live with it.
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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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Fed moves don't always mean lower rates for borrowers.
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As the Fed signaled it would likely cut interest rates, the  U.S. central bank and its European counterpart are  showing diverging readings of the economic tea leaves.
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By Andrew Balls in Washington and Jennifer Hughes in New York. The Federal Reserve on Tuesday raised interest rates by a quarter point, to 2.25 per cent, and signalled there had been no change in its assessment of current economic conditions.
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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...