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  • Discount Rate Is Also on the Fed's Table

    Wall Street Journal - WASHINGTON -- When the Federal Reserve meets today, a cut in its main short-term interest-rate target, the federal-funds rate, won't be the only thing on the table. Officials will also have to decide what action to take on the lesser-known discount ...
    2007-09-17 04:39:00

  • Fed poised to cut interest rates for first time in Ben Bernake era

    Times Online - The FOMC must balance the dangers of rising inflation against the need for economic growth and the market scrutinises every word cryptically uttered by its members in the run-up to an interest-rate meeting. By and large, the members appear to be torn ...
    2007-09-17 03:56:00

  • Investors hold their breath as they wait for Fed's decision today on ...

    Daily Telegraph - Mr Jen said the ABX index measuring appetite for sub-prime debt has begun to recover, and the interest rate on three-month Libor in the US has dropped back a little from the extreme levels of early September. He said: "I don't know why everybody is ...
    2007-09-17 04:32:00

  • Emerging debt-Market flat, US rate decision sidelines investors

    Reuters - NEW YORK, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Investors in emerging market sovereign bonds kept their trading activity light on Monday, leaving prices little changed ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve's expected interest rate cut on Tuesday. The benchmark JP Morgan ...
    2007-09-17 02:16:00

  • Dollar Little Changed Against Euro Before Fed Rate Meeting

    Bloomberg - Interest-rate futures show 50 percent of traders are betting on a half-percentage-point cut by Fed policy makers. It compares with 76 percent a week ago. ``A 25 basis point rate-cut will lead to stock-selling in disappointment,'' said Yuji ...
    2007-09-17 04:32:00

  • Emerging-Market Bonds Fall as Traders Pare Rate-Cut Predictions

    Bloomberg - Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Emerging-market bonds declined, led by Venezuela, as investors pared holdings of riskier securities before the Federal Reserve's interest-rate meeting. Speculation the Fed will cut its benchmark 5.25 percent lending rate by ...
    2007-09-17 01:47:00

  • Bank of Japan unlikely to hike interest rates in 2007 - report

    Forbes - The central bank is expected to forgo an interest rate hike at the policy board meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday, the newspaper reported, without citing its sources. The BoJ is poised to reexamine the Japanese economy and watch whether the Federal ...
    2007-09-17 04:53:00

  • UPDATE 4-Gold hits 16-month high, eye on Fed rate talks

    Reuters - LONDON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Gold touched a 16-month high on Monday as investors heavily bought the precious metal on expectations the U.S. Federal Reserve will cut interest rates, which may lift bullion's appeal. The Fed is widely expected to trim ...
    2007-09-17 03:27:00

  • Japan's Bonds May Fall as Central Banks Meet on Interest Rates

    Bloomberg - Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Japanese bonds may decline on speculation investors will shift away from the relative safety of government debt as central banks decide on interest rates. The Bank of Japan will probably keep its key rate at 0.5 percent ...
    2007-09-17 05:01:00

  • Stocks Close Lower Ahead of Key Interest Rate Decision

    CNBC - Stocks closed moderately lower as traders remained cautious ahead of the most anticipated Federal Reserve meeting in years. "It's been sort of a nervous Monday," said Bob Nunn, chief operating officer at Cohen Specialists. "The market wants to see a ...
    2007-09-17 01:40:00

  • Federal Reserve rate cut could calm markets but also ignite inflation

    MSNBC - When the Federal Reserve’s interest rate-setting committee meets Tuesday, it is widely expected to cut its target federal funds rate for the first time in more than four years. But forecasters are divided on whether the Fed will cut the benchmark a ...
    2007-09-17 04:39:00

  • Crude Oil Rises to Record $80.92 on Signs of Interest-Rate Cut

    Bloomberg - Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil rose to a record $80.92 a barrel in New York on signs that the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates at its meeting tomorrow to bolster economic growth in the U.S. ``This is going to reassure folks about the ...
    2007-09-17 03:13:00

  • Federal Reserve expected to cut key interest rate (The York Dispatch)

    MEETING TUESDAY Federal Reserve expected to cut key interest rate For the first time in more than four years, the Federal Reserve appears ready to lower interest rates to prevent a housing meltdown and a painful credit crunch from driving the economy into a recession.
    2007-09-17 08:17:57

  • Investors Continue To Focus On Tomorrow's Interest Rate Decision - U.S. Commentary (Nasdaq)

    (RTTNews) - Investors remain jittery on Monday, as Wall Street anxiously awaits tomorrow's interest rate decision by the Federal Reserve. Stocks have been pushing their way lower throughout the session after opening the day in negative territory on the heels of negative news from England.
    2007-09-17 09:55:50

  • US interest rate decision slows market (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    There has been a very hesitant start to the new trading week on Wall Street as stock prices moved lower and US investors waited for tonight's interest rate decision from the Federal Reserve.
    2007-09-17 03:30:59

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