JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — The Federal Reserve will give serious consideration to raising its benchmark interest rate in mid-September, particularly if volatility subsides in financial markets, a number of Fed officials said Friday.

The comments suggested that some investors and analysts had been too quick to discount a September rate increase, particularly as markets finished the week on a relatively quiet note Friday.

"We haven't made a decision yet, and I don't think we should," Stanley Fischer, the Fed's vice chairman, said in an interview with the cable network CNBC. "We've got time to wait and see the incoming data and see what exactly is going on now in the economy."

The Fed's policy-making committee is set to meet Sept. 16 and 17.

Fischer offered an upbeat assessment of the domestic economy. He described job growth as "impressive" and said there had been a "pretty strong case" to raise rates in September before the latest global turmoil.

"We're getting back to normal, and at some point we will want to show that, by beginning to normalize interest rates," he said, speaking during a break at the annual conference hosted here by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

Dennis Lockhart, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and a centrist on the Federal Open Market Committee, told Bloomberg that he saw roughly even odds of a September rate increase.

James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, said in an interview that he was reserving final judgment, but that he did not see strong reasons for the Fed to delay.