Fed Raises Rates to 5%

May 9, 2006

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Wednesday to the highest level in five years. Meeting for only the second time under Chairman Ben Bernanke, the central bank’s policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee raised the overnight federal funds rate by a quarter-percentage point to 5%.

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