['DATE | Wednesday', 'DATE | the_end_of_September', 'ORG | the_Federal_Open_Market_Committee', 'ORG | the_Federal_Reserve’s']
While it can never say it expects a recession, the Federal Open Market Committee’s two policy announcements on Wednesday — to leave the federal-funds rate unchanged while planning to stop the shrinkage of the Federal Reserve’s bond portfolio at the end of September — seemed to spook investors.