U.S. stocks finished higher Wednesday after the Federal Reserve kept its key interest rates unchanged and slashed its projections for rate increases in 2016. Strong gains in oil prices helped lift materials and energy stocks, buoying the main benchmarks. The Fed said in a statement that its rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee decided to leave the central bank's benchmark interest rate in a range of 0.25%-0.5%. The decision was widely expected. The big change was in the Fed's so-called "dot plot," where officials penciled in only two quarter-point hikes this year, down from four in December.
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