THE INTEREST RATE DOOMSAYER IS BACK

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told Congress that the central bank will probably raise interest rates again this year to avert inflation, despite predictions that the Fed had had its fill of rate hikes this year. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average obliged with a 20-point plummet. Greenspan, in his semiannual address to lawmakers, told the Senate Banking Committee that any signs of inflation would probably trigger a Fed vote to take interest rates--and the rates on consumer loans like mortgages--even higher.