Wall Street set to be driven by bid news An air of caution was likely to prevail on Wall Street ahead of the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision on Tuesday, but bid news in the financial sector was set to provide an early boost.
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Reuters and US futures help push FTSE higher London blue chips were helped by positive US futures and results from Reuters, the financial information provider, which reported earnings ahead of expectations as cancellations slowed.
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A chairman of the US Federal Reserve once famously quipped that the Fed's job is to take away the punch-bowl just as the party gets going. The US economy is celebrating what is likely to be its strongest quarter of growth since the boom years of the late-1990s. But this time the Fed seems likely to leave the refreshments around for a while longer. Oct 26 2003 | Read

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