Dudley joins chorus of Fed officials seeing rate hikes soon

By Lindsay Dunsmuir and Richard Leong NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. economy could be strong enough to warrant an interest rate increase in June or July, New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley said on Thursday, cementing Wall Street's view that the Fed will tighten policy soon. "We are on track to satisfy a lot of the conditions" for a rate increase, Dudley said. Dudley's comments reinforced the drum beat from within the Fed in recent days that rate increases are coming soon, with a ra