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Oil prices rally sharply as dollar falls on Fed statement


    (Reuters) - Oil prices rose sharply on Wednesday, with benchmark Brent crude up 4 percent, after the dollar fell as the Federal Reserve indicated it preferred a more gradual path to normalizing U.S. interest rates despite being open to the first rate hike in almost a decade.

    Brent was up $2 at $55.51 a dollar by 2:27 p.m. EDT, after rallying to $56 earlier.

    U.S. crude was up 85 cents at $44.31.

    (Reporting By Barani Krishnan; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)