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Fed raises interest rates by 25 bps as US economy rolls on

Federal Reserve left its rate outlook for 2018 unchanged even as policymakers projected a short-term acceleration in US economic growth

Janet Yellen
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Janet Yellen

Reuters Washington
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point on Wednesday, as anticipated, but left its rate outlook for the coming years unchanged even as policymakers projected a short-term acceleration in US economic growth.
 
The move, coming at the final policy meeting of 2017 and on the heels of a flurry of relatively bullish economic data, represented a victory for a central bank that has vowed to continue a gradual tightening of monetary policy.
 
Having raised its benchmark overnight lending rate three times this year, the Fed projected three more hikes in each of