{"id":50994,"date":"2015-12-17T10:03:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T15:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=50994"},"modified":"2015-12-17T10:03:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T15:03:51","slug":"fed-raises-interest-rates-citing-ongoing-u-s-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2015\/fed-raises-interest-rates-citing-ongoing-u-s-recovery.html","title":{"rendered":"Fed Raises Interest Rates, Citing Ongoing U.S. Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters)The Federal Reserve hiked interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade on Wednesday, signalling faith that the U.S. economy had largely overcome the wounds of the 2007-2009 financial crisis. The U.S. central bank&#8217;s policy-setting committee raised the range of its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to between 0.25 percent and 0.50 percent, ending a lengthy debate about whether the economy was strong enough to withstand higher borrowing costs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-fed-idUSKBN0TY2EX20151217\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters)The Federal Reserve hiked interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade on Wednesday, signalling faith that the U.S. economy had largely overcome the wounds of the 2007-2009 financial crisis. The U.S. central bank&#8217;s policy-setting committee raised the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50995,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50994\/revisions\/50995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}