Bullard: Rates may still need to rise another half-point this year

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve may still need to raise its benchmark interest rate by another half-point this year, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said, suggesting that any decision to pause on any increase at the upcoming June meeting won't mark a full stop to the Fed's tightening cycle.

"The risk with inflation is that it does not turn around and go back to a low level," Bullard said in remarks to the American Gas Association. "As long as the labor market is so good it is a great time to get this problem behind us and not replay the 1970s.”

(Reporting by Howard Schneider; Editing by Mark Porter)

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