Outgoing U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke hosts a news conference after a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting at the Federal Reserve building in Washington D.C., capital of the United States, Dec. 18, 2013. The U.S. Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday that it will reduce its pace of bond purchases, the third round of quantitative easing program, by 10 billion U.S. dollars starting in January.
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