Unlike expected, even with a growing anxiety about interest rates, the Federal Reserve of the United States, which has the same role of a central bank has not changed at this rate. Current interest rates, from 0% to 0.25%, in force since December 2008.
Meeting of the swelling has been awaited with great interest by many interested or even directly affected by a possible change in the rate of "Fed", which would mark the first time a change such held during the period of crisis, since the end of the financial crisis that shook the world a few years ago.
Financial markets, for their part did not expect any interest rate rise, while economists were almost divided. Although many of them thought that today would be the day the right to take this decision, the wait is likely to continue.