US stocks trading little changed at the open

As traders and markets await the Fed decision at 2 PM ET, the US stocks have opened and are trading little changed in early trading.

A snapshot of the market 10 minutes after the open is currently showing:

• Dow Jones up 10 points or 0.03% at 33138.81
• S&P index -0.45 points or -0.01% at 4175.02
• NASDAQ NASDAQ The Nasdaq Stock Market or NASDAQ is an American stock exchange. It trails only the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in market capitalization and is part of a network of stock markets and options exchanges.Launched back in 1971, NASDAQ is the acronym for the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations. Since then it is known simply as NASDAQ and has become one of the most influential exchanges worldwide.The NASDAQ was the world’s first electronic stock market, and has since ass The Nasdaq Stock Market or NASDAQ is an American stock exchange. It trails only the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in market capitalization and is part of a network of stock markets and options exchanges.Launched back in 1971, NASDAQ is the acronym for the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations. Since then it is known simply as NASDAQ and has become one of the most influential exchanges worldwide.The NASDAQ was the world’s first electronic stock market, and has since ass Read this Term index -17.24 points or -0.14% at 12546.52
• Russell 2000 up 0.19 points or +0.01% at 1899.04

A snapshot of other markets currently shows:

• Gold up $1.03 or 0.06% at $1868.06
• Silver down $0.18 or 0.8% at $22.35
• Crude oil is trading up $4.15 at $106.54. The high price reached $107.41
• bitcoin Bitcoin Bitcoin is the largest and world’s first digital currency launched back in 2009 by the entity, Satoshi Nakamoto. Being a digital currency, a defining feature of Bitcoin is that it functions without a central bank or single administrator. Rather, Bitcoin instead can be sent by peer-to-peer (P2P) networking, which is itself absent of any intermediaries.Instead of being a physical currency, Bitcoins represent pieces of digital code that can be sent and received across a kind of distributed ledger n Bitcoin is the largest and world’s first digital currency launched back in 2009 by the entity, Satoshi Nakamoto. Being a digital currency, a defining feature of Bitcoin is that it functions without a central bank or single administrator. Rather, Bitcoin instead can be sent by peer-to-peer (P2P) networking, which is itself absent of any intermediaries.Instead of being a physical currency, Bitcoins represent pieces of digital code that can be sent and received across a kind of distributed ledger n Read this Term is up $1200 at $38,954. The remains above its 200 hour moving average at $38,755.

The US yields are higher with the 10 year trading at the 3%:

• 2 year 2.833%, +6.4 basis points
• 5 year 3.047%, +4.5 basis points
• 10 year 3.000%, +4.3 basis points
• 30 year 3.043%, +3.7 basis points

The AUD remains the strongest of the major currencies while the CHF is the weakest. The USD is lower but the GBP, JPY, CAD and NZD are all within 0.14% of the close from yesterday as traders await the FOMC decision.