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Why the Fed is no longer center of the financial universe

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imageThe Fed building in New York: just a nice facade? Reuters

Markets have been speculating for months about whether the US Federal Reserve would raise interest rates in September. The day has finally arrived, and interestingly, there’s much less certainty now about which way it will go than there was just a few weeks...

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