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The Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate Thursday by a quarter-point in response to the steady decline in the once-high inflation that had angered Americans and helped drive Donald Trump’s presidential election victory this week. The rate cut follows…

COLOMBO: Cash-strapped Sri Lanka voted for its next president on Saturday (Sep 21) in an effective referendum on an unpopular International Monetary Fund austerity plan enacted after the island nation’s unprecedented financial crisis. Turnout was at nearly 70 per cent an…