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World Service,15 Mar 2017,26 mins

Federal Reserve Raises US Interest Rates

World Business Report

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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 BBC'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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