Fed's Fisher: Economy starting to move, not accelerating

The U.S. economy is beginning to move forward slowly but not accelerate, a senior Federal Reserve official said on Tuesday.

Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher, speaking at a financial conference in the United Arab Emirates capital, also said he was confident that the U.S. economy would keep growing at its current 2 to 3 percent pace.

He described this week's international rescue plan for indebted Cyprus, which involves penalizing big depositors at its banks, as unique, since the island was a depository for hot money.

But he added that the difficulty with the rescue was what it signaled to other depositors around the world, since depositors ran economies.

(Reporting by Martin Dokoupil and Stanley Carvalho; Editing by Andrew Torchia)