Stocks slump after Fed keeps rates unchanged as oil prices climb.

Global stocks fell on Wednesday, extending declines after the Federal ⁠Reserve kept ⁠interest rates unchanged, while a rise in crude prices ⁠and an earlier reading on U.S. inflation kept equities under pressure. The U.S. central bank’s summary of economic projections (SEP) showed the Fed’s benchmark ​overnight interest rate would fall by just a quarter of a percentage point by the end of this year, with no hint of the timing of such a move, while the inflation projection for the ‌end of the…

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