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Evening Standard
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City Staff

FTSE 100 Live: US interest rates in big jump as Fed hikes by 0.75%

US interest rates are going up today in another big bound in the Federal Reserve‘s aggressive fight against inflation.

The action from policymakers comes amid fears of a hard landing for the US economy.

Sterling weakened to a fresh 37-year low against the US dollar earlier today as UK public finances also showed the government made record debt interest payments of £8.2 billion in August.

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