All three of Wall Street’s major indexes advanced more than 1% on Thursday as investors considered the Federal Reserve’s path for interest rate hikes and worries eased about the prospects of a Russian default after creditors received payments. Investors were reassured that Russia may, at least for now, have averted what would have been its first external bond default in a century. This was because creditors received payment, in dollars, of Russian bond coupons which fell due this week, two market sources told Reuters on Thursday. The S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq reg…

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