World stock indexes fall but stay near record after Fed comments

By Sinead Carew NEW YORK (Reuters) - World stock markets fell on Wednesday but stayed within reach of an all-time high as investors welcomed Tuesday's comments from U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen suggesting that the U.S. central bank is in no rush raise interest rates. The S&P 500 index of U.S. companies was slightly down and the Dow was barely up a day after they hit records on U.S. housing market data and at the start of a second day of testimony from Federal Reserve Chair Ja