Higher closed her Dow Jones Wall Streetwith S&P 500 remaining almost unchanged after an unstable transaction day, as the US Federal Bank (Fed) reduced the basic interest rate As expected on Wednesday (17.9.2025).
Fed President Jerome Powell reduced the enthusiasm a little, suggesting that this move was not the beginning of a long -term rate of interest rates. Wall Street’s wide indicator closed 0.1% to 6,600.35 and Nasdaq Composite fell 0.3% to 22,261.33. On the contrary, Dow Jones closed with 260.42 points, or 0.6%, at 46.018.32, having earlier had a historical high.
The shares of high -performance technology companies led the losses following the Fed decision, as investors made profits from companies that had high returns on the upward market. The shares of Nvidia, Oracle, Palantir and Broadcom closed at lower levels.
On the positive side, shares that will benefit from the lowest interest rates have risen, boosting Dow Jones and the wider market. The shares of Walmart, Jpmorgan and American Express rose during the meeting.
One of the biggest winners of the day was the Russell 2000 index, which focuses on small capitalization shares and rose 0.25%. Smaller companies are based more on variable funding and are therefore expected to benefit from the lowest interest rates.
The Federal Open Market Committee reduced the main overnight interest rate by a quarter of the rate of 11 to 1 votes, placing the overnight interest rate in a range of between 4% and 4.25%. The Central Bank also marked that two interest rates would be implemented during the rest of the year.