Fed Officials Assess Effects of Hurricane
10th Sep 2005, 06:17 GMT
If Federal Reserve policymakers had to vote today, they'd probably raise short-term interest rates a notch out of concern that Hurricane Katrina could harm the U.S. economy more by boosting inflation than by slowing growth.
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