Sino-Singapore Jingwei Client, December 17th, on Wednesday, Eastern Time, the Federal Reserve kept the federal funds rate unchanged, and the Dow closed down 0.15%.

The Nasdaq rose 0.5%, setting a new closing high.

The S&P 500 index rose 0.18%.

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  As of the close, the Dow closed down 44.77 points, or 0.15%, to 30154.54 points; the Nasdaq closed up 63.13 points, or 0.5%, to 12,658.19 points; the S&P 500 closed up 6.55 points, or 0.18%, to 3,701.17 points.

  US stocks of large technology stocks rose and fell mixed, Apple fell 0.05%, Amazon rose 2.4%, Netflix rose 0.97%, Google fell 0.22%, Facebook rose 0.04%, Microsoft rose 2.41%.

  Most of Bank of America stocks closed up. JPMorgan Chase rose 0.26%, Goldman Sachs rose 0.53%, Citigroup rose 0.12%, Morgan Stanley rose 0.44%, Bank of America rose 0.26%, and Wells Fargo fell 0.27%.

  Most US energy stocks closed down. Chevron fell 0.74%, ConocoPhillips fell 1.1%, Schlumberger fell 0.61%, Occidental Petroleum fell 2.02%, and Exxon Mobil rose 1.55%.

  Anti-epidemic concept stocks in the US stocks fell across the board. Moderna fell 6.92%, Gilead Sciences fell 0.82%, Novavax Pharmaceuticals fell 4.23%, BioNTech fell 4.87%, and Pfizer fell 2.22%.

  American Airlines stocks fell across the board, Boeing fell 1.59%, American Airlines fell 0.88%, Delta Airlines fell 1.83%, Southwest Airlines fell 1.49%, and United Airlines fell 3.08%.

  In terms of popular Chinese stocks, Alibaba rose 2.78%, JD rose 2.86%, Baidu rose 2.64%; iQiyi fell 18.85%, TouchPal fell 8.29%, Tencent Music fell 6.3%, Litchi fell 4.82%, Xiaopeng Motors fell 4.16%; Eggshell Apartments rose 10.45%, Weibo rose 5.43%, Douyu rose 4.68%, NetEase rose 3.28%, Bilibili rose 2.83%, Weilai Automobile rose 2.67%, and Pinduoduo rose 2.42%.

  On the news, according to Xinhua News Agency, the Federal Reserve Board announced on the 16th that it would maintain the target range of the federal funds rate between zero and 0.25%, in line with market expectations.

  In European stock markets, the London Stock Market "Financial Times" 100 stock average price index closed on the 16th at 6570.91 points, an increase of 0.88%; France's Paris stock market CAC40 index closed at 5547.68 points, an increase of 0.31%; Germany's Frankfurt stock market DAX index It closed at 13565.98 points, an increase of 1.52%.

  New York oil prices rose on the 16th, and the price of New York light crude oil futures for delivery in January 2021 rose 20 cents to close at $47.82 per barrel.

  The most active February 2021 gold futures price on the New York Mercantile Exchange gold futures market rose by 3.8 US dollars over the previous trading day on the 16th, closing at US$1859.1 per ounce, an increase of 0.2%.

(Zhongxin Jingwei APP)