UPDATE 1-Fed to study mortgage lending rules

(Reuters) - "With respect to the recent problems in the subprime
mortgage market, the Board plans to consider how it might
further use its rulemaking authority ... to address particular
lending practices," Bernanke said in a May 18 letter to Senate
Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, a Connecticut
Democrat.




Dodd's office released the letter.


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