Expectations for the Fed's Interest Rate Hike

Your Cheddar hosts Kristen Scholer and Tim Stenovec recap the day's biggest news stories. The Federal Reserve will wrap up its two-day policy meeting Wednesday afternoon. The central bank is likely to raise short-term interest rates by a quarter percentage point. This would be the 5th such increase since the Fed began raising rates from near zero two years ago. Plus, as more investors rushed to buy Bitcoin this week, two top U.S. regulators reiterated their warnings about the potential risks associated with investing in cryptocurrencies. Both the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission issuing a similar message: buyer beware.

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