-Minneapolis Fed's Kashkari: "I'm comfortable...>

FED: -Minneapolis Fed's Kashkari: "I'm comfortable where rates are right now."

-"We are on pause now for a while, so we have cut interest rates three times

least year when it looked like there were some headwinds to the U.S. economy and

I thought that was smart to cut those rates."

-Rates today "are a little bit below neutral" and "that's a decent place for us

to be in right now."

-"We are probably going to sit here for the next three months, the next six

months, maybe longer, but if I were to guess what the next move will be, my best

guess is the next move would be down rather than up, because we are pretty close

to neutral today, and there are any number of shocks around the global economy

that could hit the U.S. economy and call for lower rates from here."

- A "positive boost" like optimism returning to global investment might also

call for higher rates, he said Wed. at farm panel in Mankato, Minnesota