<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080130/bs_nm/usa_fed_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080131/2008_01_30t144302_450x318_us_usa_fed.jpg?x=130&y=9 1&q=85&sig=CiTHbiuMRvqV9EyFrVyCcw--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="An employee counts U.S. dollar bills inside a money changer in the Makati financial district of Manila January 23, 2008. (John Javellana/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The Federal Reserve cut U.S.
interest rates by a hefty half-percentage point on Wednesday as
part of an ongoing aggressive effort to halt a sharp slowdown
in an economy hit by a housing slump and a credit crunch.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Fed slashes rates to blunt economic slowdown
(Reuters)