US fed meeting News

Inflation numbers, progress of monsoon rains and key global developments, including the US Fed meeting, will lay the pitch for the stock market movement this week, say analysts.

Moody's Investors Service on Tuesday said the likely interest rate hike by the US Federal Reserve this week could pose risks to some emerging markets.

On Wednesday the Federal Reserve, the US central bank, is expected to raise its federal funds interest rate for the first time in nearly 10 years

The United States weighs raising rates for the first time in nine years Thursday, a momentous decision that has transfixed world markets at a time of slowing Chinese growth and crises in other emerging markets.

Top officials at the U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday began a two-day policy meeting that is narrowly expected to end without an interest rate hike.

U.S. consumer prices unexpectedly fell in August as gasoline prices resumed their decline and a strong dollar curbed the cost of other goods, pointing to tame inflation that complicates the Federal Reserve`s decision whether to hike interest rates.

The US Federal Reserve opens a two-day meeting Wednesday to weigh what could be a historic interest rate increase amid global calls for caution as world economic growth slows.

US consumer prices fell slightly in August, dragged lower by tumbling gasoline prices, the government reported Wednesday ahead of a key Federal Reserve meeting on increasing interest rates.

The US Federal Reserve pressed ahead at its last policy-setting meeting with plans to begin raising interest rates later this year despite an apparently vigorous debate over how to communicate its intentions.

Global stock markets surged in a "Santa Claus rally" on Thursday as dealers welcomed the outcome of the US Federal Reserve meeting which signalled an interest rate increase was not imminent.