KUALA LUMPUR: Blue chips on the domestic market slumped on Thursday following the US Federal Reserve's meeting that signalled an earlier-than-expected return to higher interest rates.
The US central bank hinted that it could begin raising lending rates in 2023, a year earlier than most observers had believed, as the country's economic recovery and inflation had begun to take off.
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