S&P 500 Slides on Fed Tapering Hints, Hang Seng and ASX 200 Open Mixed DOW JONES, HANG SENG, ASX 200 INDEX OUTLOOK: April’s FOMC minutes hints at tapering discussion at some point in upcoming meetings The US Dollar rebounded; Bitcoin tumbled as much as 30% before paring some losses FOMC Minutes, USD, Bitcoin, Inflation, Asia-Pacific at Open: Wall Street equities pulled back for a third day as inflation concerns continued to dominate traders’ minds alongside hints from April’s FOMC minutes that the central bank may start to discuss tapering stimulus in the foreseeable future. A number of Fed participants suggested that if the economy continued to make rapid progress toward the Committee’s goal, “it might be appropriate at some point in upcoming meetings to begin discussing a plan for adjusting the pace of asset purchases.”