Fed's Collins: Strong equity markets boost household wealth and have buoyed consumption

NEW YORK, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Susan Collins said Tuesday the strong stock market underpins her expectation that growth should be healthy going forward.

The robust performance of company shares is “part of the stronger consumption that we've been seeing recently, and is one of the things that plays into my view that economic growth is likely to continue to be resilient,” Collins said at a meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.