Rates unchanged, markets close mixed

The markets closed mixed with the Dow falling 65 points to 16,674 even as the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady. Nasdaq rose 4 points to 4,893.

On the upside

Sequenom (Nasdaq: SQNM) entered a national agreement with UnitedHealthcare Insurance to provide the MaterniT21 PLUS HerediT CF Carrier Screen and the HerediT UNIVERSAL Carrier Screen tests.

TheStreet identified Athersys (Nasdaq: ATHX) as one of five breakout stocks that is set to soar.

Rising gold prices lifted shares of Barrick Gold (NYSE: ABX).

On the downside

Shares of Tableau Software (NYSE: DATA) dropped after Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) warned of falling revenue.

Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) warned of lower third quarter trading revenue.

Pacific Crest Securities analyst Andy Hargreaves said that Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhone 6S sales expectations are unrealistically high.

In the broad market, advancing issues outpaced decliners by a margin of 3 to 2 on the NYSE and by nearly 5 to 4 on Nasdaq. The broader S&P 500 lost 5 points to 1,990. Bitcoin rose $4 to $232.