This is the Marketplace Minute.

I'm Justin Ho.

Stocks were mixed after the Federal Reserve announced as keeping interest rates unchanged.

The Dow gained a quarter of a percent, but the S&P and the NASDAQ fell, a third of a percent.

Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell said progress on reducing inflation has stalled in recent months

and that the Central Bank is prepared to keep rates where they are for as long as it takes to bring inflation down to its 2% target.

Pall says he thinks interest rates are still causing the economy to slow down and that inflation will probably start falling again later this year.

The number of job openings didn't change much between February and March,

according to the Labor Department.

Job openings fell in construction, along with finance and insurance, they rose in education.

And the manufacturing sector contracted in April, according to the Institute for Supply Management.

It says the sector is showing signs of recovery.

For instance, manufacturing output rose slightly.

I'm Justin Ho, with the marketplace minute. You're going to.