The Fed cut a key short-term interest rate to 1.5 percent from 2 percent, a move designed to stimulate the economy by encouraging lending and borrowing. The European Central Bank and central banks from Britain and Switzerland to Canada and China followed suit.

"They are literally pulling out all the stops," said Morris Segall, president of SPG Trend Advisors, a Baltimore consulting firm.

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