Minutes or give clues as to when the Fed will shrink the size of its monthly bond purchases

U.S. stocks were low in Wednesday. Investors await minutes of the Fed's policy meeting, or a clue as to when the Fed will shrink the size of its monthly debt purchases. The Chinese concept stocks were mixed in early Wednesday, cool 6 media rose 6.5%.

US-East Time August 21 09:32 (Beijing time August 21 21:32), the Dow Jones industrial average fell 36.87 points, reported 14,966.12, a decrease of 0.25%; the Nasdaq composite index fell 7.58 points, or 3,606.01 The standard and poor 500 index fell 4.18 points, at 1, 648.17, or 0.25%.

The Chinese concept stocks in the early Wednesday, cool 6 media rose 6.5%, cool potatoes up 6.09%, the perfect World up 6.06%, Noah boat 5.45%, the star microelectronics rose 4.23%, handheld well-informed rose 3.85%, art Dragon Rose 3.32%, Century interconnection fell 5.22%, blue Flood fell 4.56%, rice Fell 4.27%, the air network fell 4.15%, Macaulay fell 3.92%.