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Fed lifts rates to 1.75% on improving economy; two more increases expected this year
(Mar 22): Federal Reserve officials, meeting for the first time under Chairman Jerome Powell, raised the benchmark lending rate a quarter-point and forecast a steeper path of hikes in 2019 and 2020, citing an improving economic outlook. Policy makers cont
March 22, 2018
Currencies
US dollar struggles on policy uncertainty, political woes
TOKYO (July 31): The US dollar struggled on Monday, wallowing near a 2-1/2-year low against the euro, weighed down by US political uncertainty and uninspiring US data that added to doubts about whether there will be another Federal Reserve rate hike this
July 31, 2017