【Financial News】U.S. Fed raises federal funds rate by 25bp, first rate hi...

今日导读：美联储宣布将基准利率上调25个基点，这意味着时隔约十年，美联储再度开启加息周期。

U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday decided to raise benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points, the first interest rate increase since 2006, marking the end of an era of extraordinary easing monetary policy.

Given the considerable improvement in labor market conditions this year and it's reasonably confident that inflation will rise, the central bank decided to raise the target range for the federal funds rate to 0.25-0.5 percent, the Fed said in a statement after concluding a two-day policy meeting on Wednesday.