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Federal Reserve Raises US Interest Rates

US interest rates have gone up for only the third time in a decade.

US interest rates have gone up for only the third time in a decade. Chris Thornberg of Beacon Economics assesses the latest move for us. Also in the programme, the 成人快手's Rob Young reports from the Netherlands as voters there go to the polls. A section of US president Donald Trump's tax return from 2005 has been leaked. Lily Batchelder from the New York University School of Law tells us what has been revealed. Plus Disney is refusing to release its latest movie, Beauty and the Beast, in Malaysia, after authorities there censored what they described as a "gay moment" in the film. We get analysis from Georg Szalai, international business editor for the Hollywood Reporter.

(Picture: The Federal Reserve building. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

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Wed 15 Mar 2017 22:32GMT

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  • Wed 15 Mar 2017 22:32GMT