Securities Act of 1933 Registration No. 002-11517

Investment Company Act of 1940 Registration No. 811-00215

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM N-1A

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 x

o Pre-Effective Amendment No.  ______

x Post-Effective Amendment No.  162

and

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940 x

x Amendment No.  162

Fidelity Hastings Street Trust

 (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

245 Summer Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02210

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)(Zip Code)

Registrant’s Telephone Number: 617-563-7000

Marc Bryant, Secretary

245 Summer Street

Boston, Massachusetts 02210

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

It is proposed that this filing will become effective immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b).

EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit	Exhibit No.
XBRL Instance Document	EX-101.INS
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document	EX-101.SCH
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document	EX-101.CAL
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document	EX-101.DEF
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Labels Linkbase Document	EX-101.LAB
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document	EX-101.PRE

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Registrant certifies that it meets all of the requirements for the effectiveness of this Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No.162 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Boston, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the 17th day of March 2017.

	Fidelity Hastings Street Trust
	By	/s/Stacie M. Smith
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||		Stacie M. Smith, President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

(Signature)		(Title)	(Date)
/s/Stacie M. Smith		President and Treasurer	March 17, 2017
Stacie M. Smith		(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/Howard J. Galligan III		Chief Financial Officer	March 17, 2017
Howard J. Galligan III		(Principal Financial Officer)
/s/James C. Curvey	*	Trustee	March 17, 2017
James C. Curvey
/s/Dennis J. Dirks	*	Trustee	March 17, 2017
Dennis J. Dirks
/s/Alan J. Lacy	*	Trustee	March 17, 2017
Alan J. Lacy
/s/Ned C. Lautenbach	*	Trustee	March 17, 2017
Ned C. Lautenbach
/s/Joseph Mauriello	*	Trustee	March 17, 2017
Joseph Mauriello
/s/Charles S. Morrison	*	Trustee	March 17, 2017
Charles S. Morrison
/s/Robert W. Selander	*	Trustee	March 17, 2017
Robert W. Selander
/s/Cornelia M. Small	*	Trustee	March 17, 2017
Cornelia M. Small
/s/William S. Stavropoulos	*	Trustee	March 17, 2017
William S. Stavropoulos
/s/David M. Thomas	*	Trustee	March 17, 2017
David M. Thomas

*	By:	/s/Megan C. Johnson
		Megan C. Johnson, pursuant to a power of attorney dated April 1, 2014 and filed herewith.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

We, the undersigned Directors or Trustees, as the case may be, of the following investment companies:

Fidelity Advisor Series I Fidelity Advisor Series VIII Fidelity Beacon Street Trust Fidelity Capital Trust Fidelity Central Investment Portfolios LLC Fidelity Commonwealth Trust Fidelity Concord Street Trust Fidelity Congress Street Fund Fidelity Contrafund Fidelity Destiny Portfolios Fidelity Devonshire Trust Fidelity Exchange Fund Fidelity Financial Trust Fidelity Hanover Street Trust Fidelity Hastings Street Trust Fidelity Investment Trust Fidelity Magellan Fund Fidelity Mt. Vernon Street Trust Fidelity Puritan Trust Fidelity Securities Fund Fidelity Summer Street Trust Fidelity Trend Fund Variable Insurance Products Fund Variable Insurance Products Fund II Variable Insurance Products Fund III

in addition to any other investment company for which Fidelity Management & Research Company (“FMR”) or an affiliate acts as investment adviser and for which the undersigned individuals serve as Directors or Trustees (collectively, the “Funds”), hereby revoke all previous powers of attorney we have given to sign and otherwise act in our names and behalf in matters involving any investment company for which FMR or an affiliate acts as investment adviser and hereby constitute and appoint Thomas C. Bogle, Joseph R. Fleming, John V. O’Hanlon, Robert W. Helm, Megan C. Johnson, and Anthony H. Zacharski, each of them singly, our true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with full power of substitution, and with full power to each of them, to sign for us and in our names in the appropriate capacities, all Registration Statements of the Funds on Form N-1A, or any successors thereto, any and all subsequent Amendments, Pre-Effective Amendments, or Post-Effective Amendments to said Registration Statements or any successors thereto, and any supplements or other instruments in connection therewith, and generally to do all such things in our names and behalf in connection therewith as said attorneys–in-fact deem necessary or appropriate, to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, and all related requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission.  We hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact or their substitutes may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.  This power of attorney is effective for all documents filed on or after April 1, 2014.

WITNESS our hands on this first day of April 2014.

/s/James C. Curvey	/s/Charles S. Morrison
James C. Curvey	Charles S. Morrison
/s/Dennis J. Dirks	/s/Robert W. Selander
Dennis J. Dirks	Robert W. Selander
/s/Alan J. Lacy	/s/Cornelia M. Small
Alan J. Lacy	Cornelia M. Small
/s/Ned C. Lautenbach	/s/William S. Stavropoulos
Ned C. Lautenbach	William S. Stavropoulos
/s/Joseph Mauriello	/s/David M. Thomas
Joseph Mauriello	David M. Thomas