Federal Reserve policy-makers opted Tuesday to keep interest rates steady at four-decade lows, trying to keep an unevenly paced recovery rolling with cheap credit for consumers and businesses.
The Federal Open Market Committee voted unanimously to keep its trendsetting federal funds rate overnight loans between banks at 1.75 percent. The symbolic discount rate was also unmoved at 1.25 percent.
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