Wall Street equities finished sharply higher on Wednesday after the US Federal Reserve announced its second 0.75 percentage point interest rate rise in two months.
The increase in the federal funds rate to 2.25 per cent to 2.50 per cent was widely expected, and investors were encouraged as Fed chair Jay Powell said the central bank may soon slow the pace of further rises.
“At some point it will be appropriate to slow down . . . We might do another unusually large increase [in September] but that’s not a decision that we’ve made at all, we’re going to be guided by the data,” he said.
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