US equity markets logged their worst single session performance of 2024 to close out January as investors digested the latest monetary policy pronouncements from the Federal Reserve and served up a lacklustre response to some solid earnings from some technology mega-caps - Dow lost -317-points or -0.82%, the 30-stock index’s biggest one-day point decline since December. Microsoft Corp (down -2.69%). Cisco Systems Inc (-3.94%), International Business Machines (IBM) Corp (-2.24%), Nike Inc (-2.54%) and Salesforce Inc (-2.31%) also declined over >2%.