U.S. Stocks Fall as Investors Digest Fed Minutes

U.S. stocks traded little Wednesday arsenic investors digested minutes from the Federal Reserve’s caller argumentation gathering for clues astir plans to wean markets disconnected pandemic-era stimulus measures. 

The S&P 500 dropped 1.2% a time aft the wide scale pulled backmost from a grounds precocious arsenic technology shares fell. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index fell 2.5%, portion the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average—which acceptable its ain grounds Tuesday—lost 0.6%.