The Fed has an interest rate announcement today — crypto traders think it will be boring

By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) The main event for the crypto market on Wednesday is the Federal Reserve interest-rate decision, due at 2 p.m. Key volatility indexes, however, indicate that traders do not expect extraordinary price swings. While the bank is expected to keep interest rates steady between 3.5% and 3.75%,…

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Amazon identifies the issue that broke much of the internet today, but is still working to restore services

An outage affecting web hosting giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) has taken out vast swathes of the web, including websites, banks, and some government services. On Monday afternoon, the company offered an update on the cause of the issue and noted it was still not yet resolved. In an announcement published to the Amazon website,…

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