Fed may need to buy more mortgage bonds: Williams

Fed may need to buy more mortgage bonds: Williams

2/8/2012

SAN RAMON, Calif (Reuters) - The U.Scentral bank may need to buy more bonds to bolster a housing market whose distress is at the heart of a "frustratingly slow" economic recovery, a top Federal Reserve official said on Wednesday.

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