Rates Seen Headed Up
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Federal Reserve policy-makers gathered on Tuesday, with expectations unanimous they will lift US interest rates for a third time this year despite lingering signs of economic stress.
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Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills rose in yesterday's auction with rates on six-month bills climbing to the highest level in four months.
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Mortgage rates climbed for the second consecutive week on news that the economy may soon be improving, according to surveys conducted by mortgage buyer Freddie Mac and Bankrate.
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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.
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Federal Reserve officials are set to jack up interest rates tonight for a fifth time this year, confident the US expansion is self-supporting and no longer in need of rock-bottom borrowing costs for a boost.
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Satisfied that the economy is back on track, the Federal Reserve is likely to increase interest rates today, and in December as well.
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Mortgage rates inched up this week, but remained well below the year-high levels set in the spring. Freddie Mac, in its weekly survey released Thursday, reported that rates on 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages
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Mortgage rates in the US increase, and short-term rates rise overseas.
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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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US interest rates are expected to rise by a quarter percentage point to 2.25% following a US Federal Reserve meeting later on Tuesday.
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Rising energy and transport costs helped push inflation higher last month, raising the prospect that interest rates may increase next year.
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The Federal Reserve is likely to announce a quarter-point rise in the federal funds target rate from 1.75 percent to 2.0 percent, economists and traders agree.
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The Federal Reserve is expected to hike rates following the Labor Department&#39;s report on Friday that the US economy added almost twice as many jobs last month than Wall Street economists had predicted.
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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 Bank of England is expected to keep interest rates at 4.5% on Thursday - but another rise is expected before too long.
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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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The Bank of Canada rate will hit four per cent by late next year, an economist predicts. OTTAWA -- The Bank of Canada raised its key policy interest rate yesterday while hinting that this could be the start of a new upward trend in borrowing costs.