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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Fed chief to throw light on policy after rate hike AFP - Sunday, February 21 Send IM Story Print Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve (L) and US Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner prepare for the start of talks at the G7 Finance Ministers Meeting in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada, February 6, 2010. AFP PHOTO/GEOFF ROBINS/STR WASHINGTON (AFP) - – US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke is expected to shed light this week on the central bank's sudden decision to hike an emergency bank-lending rate, triggering speculation on monetary tightening. Bernanke is scheduled to appear before the financial committee of the House of Representatives on Wednesday and the Senate banking panel the next day, where his testimony will be closly scrutinized by jittery markets. The Fed's increase Friday of the discount rate, the interest it charges on emergency loans to banks, rattled stock markets. Investors feared the central bank might be moving faster than anticipated to withdraw critical support measures for the US economy, as it recovered from a brutal recession. It was the first major action by the Fed to remove some of the unprecedented monetary easing measures; and also the first tinkering of interest rates by a central bank from the Group of Seven industrialized nations after emerging from recession, analysts said. The markets were particularly concerned that the central bank was setting the stage for tightening the more significant federal funds rate, the benchmark interest rate that banks charge each other for loans now at virtually zero percent. "Hopefully, chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony to Congress (this) week will shed some important new light on the Fed's policy intentions," said Brian Bethune, chief US financial economist of IHS Global Insight. "It is indeed puzzling as to why the Fed made this move and announcement out of cycle with its meeting dates for 2010," he said. Although many had expected the Fed to raise the discount rate, considering the waning interest from banks for the short-term loan facility, the timing caught many by surprise, especially coming well ahead of the central bank's March 16 policy meeting. If the Fed was laying the groundwork for dismantling the easy money policy critical to accelerating the US recovery, it appeared premature, analysts said. The US economy expanded by a strong 5.7 percent in the final 2009 quarter after 2.2 percent growth in the preceding quarter, but unemployment near double digits is expected to persist for some time in the face of lagging job growth. In addition, the latest consumer price data for January showed tame inflation, underscoring weak demand and still-fragile recovery from a recession that began in December 2007 and has cost more than seven million jobs. "In some ways the timing of the Fed move is peculiar since growth is not exactly building in a clear way," said Robert Brusca, chief economist at FAO Economics. The economy "has been so weak for so long that if there is backsliding the possibility that economic weakness turns to financial catastrophe again is quite high," he said. Bernanke is likely to sound "cautiously upbeat on growth and inflation" in his congressional testimony and focus on the "exit" strategy for the radical measures introduced to haul the world's largest economy from recession, said Fabio Fois, an economist at Barclays Capital. "We believe it is likely that Bernanke will reiterate that he expects economic conditions to warrant exceptionally low levels of the fed funds rate for an extended period; it will be a hawkish signal if he does not," Fois said. It will be Bernanke's maiden appearance before lawmakers since his acrimonious confirmation by Congress for a second term beginning February 1. Aside from slashing the fed funds rate to an unprecedented range of zero to 0.25 percent during the financial crisis, the Fed also pumped hundreds of billions of dollars into the economy to keep it afloat when the financial sector was reeling from a home mortage meltdown. "We dont expect (Bernanke) to hint at an imminent tightening in policy," said analyst Sal Guatieri of BMO Capital Markets. "Tightening is not expected until the Fed is convinced that the recovery is sustainable and the jobless rate is trending down," he said. 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