Rate Hike on Tap at Fed's Final 2004 Meet
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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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By Tim Ahmann WASHINGTON  - 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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U.S. inflation appears to have   decelerated since the last Federal Reserve meeting, convincing   investors the central bank will opt to keep rates steady again   on Wednesday.
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TORONTO (CP) - There&#39;s still optimism for an end-of-year stock market rally - but whether it comes off could be up to the US Federal Reserve, which meets this week to set interest rates and give its latest assessment of the US economy.
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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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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 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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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 policy makers plan to keep pushing interest rates higher to blunt the risk of an inflation flare-up, according to minutes of the Fed's December meeting, released yesterday.
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U.S. inflation remains well  contained but the Federal Reserve is on high alert for signs of  any pick-up in prices, top policy-makers said on Wednesday.
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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.
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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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Tomorrow&#39;s US Federal Reserve meeting will likely dominate markets this week as investors look for clues about economic strength and the pace of interest rate hikes.
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WASHINGTON  - US Federal Reserve policymakers met, poised to raise key interest rates to remove some of the cheap-money stimulus washing through the economy.
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WASHINGTON : US Federal Reserve policymakers opened a meeting, nearly certain to raise key interest rates amid signs of a resurgent American jobs market.
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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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Observers widely expect the U.S.  Federal Reserve to raise U.S. interest rates by a  quarter-percentage point at the conclusion of a two-day meeting  that opens on Tuesday as the U.S. economy is growing steadily.