Share with friends and circle of friends with wechat scanning QR code < / P > < p > on Thursday, us time, the main stock indexes of US stocks closed down, led by energy, communication and technology stocks. US Federal Reserve Chairman Powell expressed support for accelerating interest rate hikes, including a possible 50 basis point hike in May < p > the Dow Jones index closed at 34792.76, down 368.03 points, or 1.05%; The standard & Poor's 500 index closed at 4393.66, down 1.48%; The Nasdaq composite index closed at 13174.65, down 2.07% < p > large tech stocks generally fell, meta fell more than 6%, Amazon and Netflix fell more than 3% < p > leading chip stocks generally fell, with NVIDIA down more than 6% and AMD down more than 4% < p > electric vehicle stocks generally fell, and Tesla rose 3.23% against the trend after the company reported better than expected earnings; Rivian fell 6.82%, Faraday fell 12.81% in the future; Weilai fell 5.51%, Xiaopeng fell 4.14%, and ideal fell 4.34% < p > Zhongyu e-commerce stocks generally fell, with Alibaba down 3.83%, jd.com down 5.67% and pinduoduo down 6.86% < p > zhonggai online education stocks generally fell, with gaotu down 5.84%, Netease Youdao down 4.90%, New Oriental down 4.68% and tal down 2.16% < p > other popular Chinese stocks generally fell, of which didi fell 9.04%, manbang fell 8.97%, boss direct employment fell 6.90%, BiliBili fell 5.36%, baidu fell 5.18% and almost rose 0.61% < p > specifically, the performance of major technology stocks in U.S. stocks is as follows: < / P > < p > the performance of major chip stocks in U.S. stocks is as follows: < / P > < p > the performance of major medium cap stocks listed in the United States is as follows: < / P > < p > Federal Reserve Chairman Powell expressed support for accelerating interest rate hike to curb inflation, including a 50 basis point interest rate hike in May. Affected by this news, U.S. stocks fell sharply on Monday afternoon < p > Powell said in a discussion held by the International Monetary Fund in Washington: "it seems to me that it is appropriate to speed up the pace of action. < / P > < p > < p > Powell's speech also refocused investors on high inflation and the Fed's countermeasures, which were originally focusing on the latest quarterly results. < / P > < p > Garrett Melson, strategist at Natixis investment manager solutions, an investment management company "The market faces many different concerns and uncertainties," he said < p > he said: "the key issue is inflation and the path of monetary policy." He predicted that unless investors have a clearer understanding of these two aspects, they will not take major actions to trigger a sharp decline in the stock market < p > he also believes that it is unlikely that the first quarter earnings will drive the stock market to "rise sharply from now on", but it may provide support for the stock price. (Liu Chun)