Fed must be ready to take back cuts: Fed’s Mishkin (Reuters)

Posted on Monday 5 November 2007

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sits before the start of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) meeting at the IMF headquarters in Washington October 20, 2007. Bernanke may not have many soothing words for Wall Street this week as the Federal Reserve hammers home its point that it will take more than a modest economic slowdown to pry loose more interest rate cuts. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)Reuters - The Federal Reserve should be ready to nreverse two interest rate cuts if the U.S. economy escapes nmajor damage from recent market turmoil, but recovery is a way noff for housing and subprime mortgage markets, Fed officials nsaid on Monday.


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