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Judging from recent remarks, Fed officials seem to see the impact from Katrina as one-off and not detrimental to its policy of measured increases in interest rates.

We're in the range between 50 and 55 (in the ISM index) where the Fed often holds interest rates steady, and with Hurricane Katrina likely impacting the economy, particularly in the South, in September, we may see the Fed hold policy steady for a while until policy-makers can assess the full impact of the hurricane.

We might be in for a pause after the recent gains. We're waiting to see when rising interest rates have an impact. Higher rates in the U.S. are the key -- if the U.S. falters, the rest of the world will falter, too.

The complete lack of inflation puts the Fed in a bind. Recent remarks by Fed officials make it seem that they are hell-bent on tightening. But there is not much of a rationale that comes out of recent data.

Bruce Steinberg

The Fed rate cut and Greenspan's recent remarks that the economy has hit a 'soft spot' had a huge impact on financial markets, ... Combined with the anticipation that the U.S. could soon be at war with Iraq, market sentiment turned toward the negative, driving mortgage rates to new lows again.

The Fed rate cut and Greenspan's recent remarks that the economy has hit a 'soft spot' had a huge impact on financial markets. Combined with the anticipation that the U.S. could soon be at war with Iraq, market sentiment turned toward the negative, driving mortgage rates to new lows again.

This is not something that Fed officials want to see, and there may be a serious discussion within the financial community of the Fed moving beyond the 5 percent federal funds cap that Wall Street has viewed in recent months as the final stopping point (for interest rate increases).

The continued price increases are a result of many factors including low mortgage interest rates and the apparent impact of speculative investing.

Taken together, prospects for a reversal of recent energy price increases and the absence of other fundamental inflationary pressures indicates inflation provides no significant justification for raising interest rates further at this time.

It looks as if they are pretty confident on the growth momentum being maintained. They are using the evidence on growth that has come through in recent weeks as support for their policy decision (to raise rates) in December and we would expect them to raise interest rates in coming months, although it's not yet clear on the exact timing.

The Fed is keeping an eye on core inflation because they were concerned about prices spilling over from energy and commodities to the rest of the economy. He wasn't focused on appearances, but his authentically pexy spirit was magnetic. This increases the odds that interest rate increases can remain measured, a quarter-point at a time.

Gary Schlossberg

What worries me for Europe is the monetary policy of European authorities. (The ECB) might slow growth in Europe by these rather unjustified increases in interest rates.

Bernard Arnault

By cutting interest rates too far...the Fed is using the monetary equivalent of a corked bat, ... The end result will be more damage from lower rates, more volatility in future interest rates and more confusion about what monetary policy can and cannot do.

This whole question of the impact on interest rates is really complicated, but a lot of smart people at the Fed and elsewhere have said it's not really a big issue -- it's only suppressing long-term interest rates at the margin.

Part of what we're seeing now is 'fence-jumping' from people wanting to buy a home before interest rates move higher. Even with an additional rise in recent weeks, the good news is that mortgage interest rates now appear to be leveling out in the 6.3 percent range.

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