Wall Street is ending exactly where it left off before the FED's press release.
At 8.01pm, when the "unanimous" decision to keep interest rates unchanged was announced, US indices and T-Bonds seemed to freeze, and remained so for 25 minutes.
Then we witnessed a "saloon door" sequence, with US indices gaining +1.5% (on their lows) after the start of Jerome Powell's press conference... but at 9.25pm, all hell broke loose and the S&P500 plummeted from 5,090 to 5,020, ending -0.3%, and at the day's low.

Same scenario for the Nasdaq, which in 1/2 hour went from 15,900 to 15.605 (i.e. -0.33%), in the wake of AMD -8.6% (after quarterly results just in line with expectations), Idexx Labs -5%, Nvidia -3.9%, Microchip and Broadcom (-3.5%).
Doordash plunged 12% with a loss of 6Cts/share vs. 4Cts/share expected.

Among the S&P, Norwegian Cruise and Starbucks plunged -15%.

In the most eagerly awaited event of the day, the FED notes that growth remains "rapid" ("solid pace") and that job creation and consumption remain robust ("at a high level"), while inflation has stopped falling and there have been no signs of improvement in recent months.
The FED also decided to reduce the pace of its quantitative tightening (or "QT") from $60bn/month to $25bn/month (vs. the anticipated $30bn/month), while MBS resales remained unchanged at -$35bn/month.

T-Bonds, which had eased off at the opening of the market, stagnated at the levels they had reached with the official release: the '10-yr' ended the session at -5pts to 4.635.
The small event at the end of the session was the '2-yr', which erased -8Pts and fell back below the symbolic 5% threshold (from 5.046 to 4.966%).
The Dollar ended without much change, down -0.1% according to the '$-Index', which fell back to 106.1

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