Bollards help secure the entrance to the Federal Reserve in Washington, December 16, 2015. Wall Street’s top banks expect the Federal Reserve to next raise U.S. interest rates in the first quarter of next year, according to a Reuters poll conducted on Wednesday, after the Fed raised rates for the first time in more than nine years. A total of 13 of 21 primary dealers, brokerages that deal directly with the Federal Reserve, say the Fed will next raise rates in the first quarter, after it raised the range of its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to between 0.25 percent and 0.50 percent on Wednesday. The remaining eight dealers said the Fed will raise rates by the second quarter. It was the first rate increase by the Fed since 2006. The Fed’s projections, released with its statement, show it still anticipates a federal funds […]