The US stock market rose sharply in Wednesday, with the Dow up nearly 300 points. The Fed announced that it would reduce its purchases of assets by $10 billion a month from January next year to $75 billion trillion. Chinese concept stocks rose by 7.9% in Wednesday.
 
US-East Time December 18 16:00 (Beijing time December 19 05:00), the Dow Jones industrial average rose 293.03 points, closed at 16,168.29, or 1.85%; the standard and poor 500 index rose 29.72 and closed at 1,810.72. Rose to 1.67%, with the Nasdaq Composite index up 46.38 points, at 4,070 to 06, or 1.15%.
 
China concept stocks in Wednesday close majority, 6 stocks rose more than 4%, China as the media rose 16.74%, Dangdang up 7.9%, Century interconnection rose 6.69%, the financial sector rose 4.37%, auto Rose 4.06%, 500 lottery net rose 4%;3 shares fell more than 3%, Mai Lin down 5.46%, Net Qin fell 5.06%, the air network fell 3.47%.