Dow futures fell nearly 200 points after rising Fed minutes


Futures of the US stock index fell Wednesday night, after shares fell on Wall Street after Fed minutes revealed revelations about the economic outlook. From midnight Eastern, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00,
-0.62%
were down 170 points, or 0.6%, while S&P 500 futures ES00,
-0.59%
and Futda NQ00 and Nasdaq-100,
-0.59%
fell by about the same percentage. Earlier in the day, equities posted early gains as minutes of the Federal Reserve meeting in July showed that staff were forecasting economic growth for the rest of 2020 and stressing the need for additional fiscal stimuli in the nose of the coronavirus pandemic. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA,
-0.30%
lost 85.19 points, 0.3%, to close at 27,692.88, while the S&P 500 SPX,
-0.44%
fell 14.93 points, 0.4%, to close at 3,374.85, after setting an intraday record of 3,399.54. The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP,
-0.57%
64.38 points slipped, or 0.6%, to close at 11,146.46, after also setting a new intraday record of 11,257.42.

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