Now that the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the U.S., has raised interest rates a quarter of a percentage point, you may be wondering: What does this mean for my retirement account? In the short term, as the stock and bond markets react to the increase, even a diversified retirement account may lose value, but that’s... Andrea Coombes is a writer at NerdWallet.

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