US exchanges closed lower by 0.2% on the news from the Fed – RIA Novosti

23:40 15.06.2016

(updated: 23:41 15.06.2016 )

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MOSCOW, June 15 – RIA Novosti Major US stock index on Wednesday closed in the “red” zone against the decision of the Fed’s rate, according to the auction

The industrial index Dow Jones.. decreased by 0.2% – to 17,640.17 points, the index NASDAQ high-tech companies – by 0.18%, to 4834.93 points, the index of wide market S & amp; P 500 – by 0.18% to 2071.50 points.

The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday on the results of the June meeting kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 0.25-0.5% per annum, noting the ambiguity published in recent weeks, the macroeconomic data. In addition, the Fed forecast worsened the country’s economic growth in 2016 to 2% in March to 2,2%.

In June, the regulator has kept forecast rate increase in 2016 to an average of 0.9% waiting, thereby improving the two until the end of the year. In December 2015, the Fed chief Janet Yellen announced plans to bring the base rate to 1.5% in 2016 and to 2.5% -. In 2017.

“The market’s reaction was neutral, since the application (the Fed ) confirmed that the rate hike will not appear in June or in July Meanwhile, the fact that the Fed is more concerned with the economic slowdown and the fact that this delay is not a temporary, not a positive for stocks. “- said the agency MarketWatch senior economist at TIAA Global Asset Management Tim Hopper (Tim Hopper).

The worst forecast was published on Wednesday, internal statistics. Thus, industrial production in the US dropped on a monthly basis by 0.4% in May. Analysts had forecast a decline of 0.2%. Download industrial capacity was 74.9% while expectations index experts at the level of 75.2% in May.