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Urgent: U.S. dollar rises on Fed statement

Xinhua, January 29, 2015 Adjust font size:

The U.S. dollar climbed against most major currencies on Wednesday as the Federal Reserve announced it would keep "patient" in raising interest rates and stressed that U.S. economy has been expanding solidly.

In late New York trading, the euro fell to 1.1309 dollars from 1.1367 dollars in the previous session, while the dollar bought 117.69 Japanese yen, lower than 117.80 yen of the previous session. Endite