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In an unprecedented, emergency, coordinated move, the Fed and other major central banks cut interest rates Wednesday, in an attempt to prevent the global financial crisis from spreading further and damaging economies.

The Fed, European Central Bank, Bank of England, Bank of Canada, Sveriges Riksbank, and the Swiss National Bank each lowered their benchmark rates by 50 basis points. The Bank of Japan was not involved in this round of rate cuts, but said it fully supported the action.

Separately, China's central bank also lowered its one-year lending rate by 0.27 percentage points.

"`The recent intensification of the financial crisis has augmented the downside risks to growth and thus has diminished further the upside risks to price stability,'' the banks said in joint statement. "Some easing of global monetary conditions is therefore warranted."

The action brought the Fed's benchmark rate to 1.5%; the ECB's main rate is now 3.75%; Canada's declined to 2.5%; the U.K.'s rate fell to 4.5%; Sweden's rate declined to 4.25%. China's rate fell to 6.93%.

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