The world stock indexes were mainly down on Thursday - in Europe and Asia-Pacific region they closed in the negative, in the USA they showed negative dynamics at first, but then passed to the growth. The reason was the results of the last meeting of the Federal Reserve, published on Wednesday. According to them, the regulator intends to reduce its balance by $95 billion a month. This will happen within the framework of the plan to reduce the amount allocated to support the economy in the conditions of the pandemic coronavirus - its volume was several trillion dollars. The measures are aimed at combating elevated inflation. The cuts could begin in May, the document said. This information strengthened the sell-off in world stock exchanges that began on Tuesday, as the policy could lead to a fall in liquidity and lead to a recession, according to the online edition "Expert.ru. At the close of trading in Europe DAX (Germany) lost 0.52%, FTSE 100 (UK) - 0.47%, CAC 40 (France) - 0.57%. Indices of the Asian-Pacific region finished the day with a 1.69% drop, the U.S. indexes were up 0.061% - 0.43%.