Yields on U.S. government debt ended lower on Wednesday after Federal Reserve officials took no action on interest rates for a second straight meeting.
What happened
What drove markets
As widely expected, Fed officials voted unanimously to hold their main interest-rate target at a 22-year high of 5.25%-5.5% on Wednesday, but they left the option of a rate hike at some point on the table. Analysts focused on the part of the Fed’s policy statement which referred to the recent rise in Treasury yields, and indicated…
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