Fed's Fisher Hasn't Changed Stance on Ending QE

Stock market volatility has not changed his desire to stop the Fed's bond-buying "one iota," and he sees no reason to not end the program this month, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher said in a televised interview Monday.

Fisher told CNBC the underlying economy is "doing well" and there is "price stability," based on his bank's trimmed mean measure of personal consumption expenditures.

He called the 0.3% drop in retail sales in September a "slight aberration" and he sees no inflation pressure, either to the upside or downside.

Fisher also said liftoff will be determined by the economic recovery, but he expects that to occur in Spring 2015.

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