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Dallas Federal Reserve President Robert Kaplan called on Thursday for the U.S. central bank to be patient when it comes to raising interest rates, citing the effect of tighter financial conditions on U.S. economic growth.

U.S. economic activity continued to expand in most districts from early January to late February but conditions varied considerably across regions and within sectors, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday.

An influential Federal Reserve official on Tuesday said he sees downside risks to his U.S. economic outlook, an assessment that could flag a longer pause before the Fed's next interest-rate hike than he and his colleagues had earlier signaled.

Inflation is at the center of the economic universe because it will determine the trajectory of interest rates.

A key inflation gauge rose more than expected in January, perhaps supporting the Fed’s longstanding prediction that prices will gradually rise toward the central bank’s 2% target.

No Federal Reserve official has said it publicly but the Fed raising interest rates four times in 2016 has about as much chance as a snowball in hell.

Federal Reserve policymakers worried last month that tighter global financial conditions could hit the U.S. economy and considered changing their planned path of interest rate hikes in 2016.

Saying the largest U.S. banks should be regulated like nuclear power plants, the Minnesota Fed President Neel Kashkari warned of the lingering dangers of ‘too big to fail banks’ and urged Congress to consider breaking them up.

The highlight of next week’s economic calendar will be the minutes from last month’s meeting of the Federal Reserve.

New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley said concerns that U.S. central bankers are considering negative interest rates are “extraordinarily premature.”

Federal Reserve policy is "appropriately quite accommodative" given the low level of inflation, which poses little threat to a U.S. economic expansion that will only grow older unless there is an outside shock, an influential Fed official said on Friday.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Thursday said negative interest rates in the U.S. are unlikely but not out of the question.

The Fed chief said tightening financial conditions and an uncertain global outlook could throw the U.S. economy off track from an otherwise solid course.

A top Federal Reserve policymaker on Wednesday expressed concern that U.S. reforms enacted after the global financial crisis may have made it harder to stem a credit market panic, a warning that came amid growing stress in corners of the banking sector.

The imposition of negative interest rates by central banks in Japan and Europe has American investors spooked that the U.S. Fed might be mulling a similar policy. They needn't worry.

Fed Chair Janet Yellen will appear before Congress on Wednesday and Thursday for her semi-annual report on monetary policy.

Yellen will appear Wednesday and Thursday and she will undoubtedly be asked if the Fed has backed off plans to raise interest rates as many as four times in 2016.

The U.S. economy will work through the latest market selloff and "regain its footing" said Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester on Thursday.

With an eye toward recent global market turbulence, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday left interest rates alone while acknowledging the rough start to 2016 and offering assurances that interest rates probably won't be moving any higher any time soon.

The Federal Reserve’s decision to keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged following a two-day policy meeting in January was met on Wall Street with fairly negative reaction after markets had about an hour to digest the news.