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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stock futures on Monday pointed to a lower start on Wall Street as Moody's Investors Services warned it could lower bond insurer credit ratings because of subprime losses and Alan Greenspan warned of a possible U.S. recession.

Fears that US policymakers could be caught in an "inflation trap" heightened yesterday, as the American government released inflation figures that were much worse than had been expected at the same time as the former US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said the chances of a full-blown recession had risen.

After a rate-cut, fears of inflation IT SEEMS odd to be talking about it just after the Federal Reserve has cut interest rates in response to fears of an American recession, but many people (including Alan Greenspan, a former chairman of the Fed) are worried about a rise in inflation. It is important to distinguish between the short-term and the long-term. In the short-term, of course, weaker demand as a result of American housing problems and the credit crunch might result in reduced inflationary pressures. Measures of core inflation in America and Britain are now back below their targets.