On the eve of the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision, the U.S. stock market was subdued, with mixed performance in the storage and optical communication sectors, and the S&P 500 closing at its lowest level since August.

BlockBeats news, September 16th, according to BIT(bit.com) market data, on the eve of the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision, the market showed lackluster performance. The US stock market closed with the Dow down 0.63%, the Nasdaq down 0.78%, and the S&P 500 index down 0.45%, marking a new closing low for the S&P 500 since August.

In the US semiconductor and storage sectors:

Seagate Technology (STX) fell 4.10%;

Western Digital (WDC) fell 3.50%;

SanDisk (SNDK) fell 1.30%;

Micron Technology (MU) rose 0.39%;

NVIDIA (NVDA) rose 0.57%;

Intel (INTC) fell 0.05%;

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) rose 2.19%;

Broadcom (AVGO) fell 1.58%;

Among optical communication concept stocks:

Pure Photonics ETF FOTO fell 0.06%;

Marvell Technology (MRVL) rose 1.32%;

AAOI (Applied Optoelectronics) fell 0.49%;

LITE (Lumentum Holdings) rose 0.47%;

COHR (Coherent Corp.) rose 1.75%;

CIEN (Ciena Corporation) rose 4.60%;

FN (Fabrinet) fell 2.00%;

AXTI (AXT Inc.) rose 1.12%;

NOK (Nokia) rose 1.97%.