Exxon Mobil ( XOM ) and Chevron ( CVX ) were among the Dow's decliners. Wall Street tracked lower near the close on Wednesday, off the day's lows but still in the red after the Federal Open Market Committee projected a faster pace of interest-rate tightening for 2017 than earlier seen. ET releases of initial weekly jobless claims, the November consumer price index and Q3 current account and December manufacturing measures from the New York Empire State and Philadelphia Fed.