Federal Reserve Keeps Interest Rates On Hold
~!!~A rise in rates would have been passed on to consumers and investors following an era in which a flood of cheap money ~ to help boost lending in the wake of the credit crisis ~ has fuelled stock market values to record levels//
~!!~The dollar was weaker in the run~up to the Fed*s decision at 19:00 BST, as investors bet against the bank pulling the trigger today despite a strong domestic economic argument for it to start raising rates//