245 Summer Street

Fidelity® Investments

Boston, MA 02210

June 25, 2020

U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, D.C. 20549

RE: Fidelity Hastings Street Trust (the trust): File Nos. 002-11517 and 811-00215 Fidelity Series Emerging Markets Debt Local Currency Fund (the fund(s)) Post-Effective Amendment No. 179

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Ladies and Gentlemen:

Pursuant to Rule 8b-16 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, Regulation S-T and Rule 485(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, (33 Act) transmitted herewith on behalf of the trust is Post-Effective Amendment No. 179 to the trust’s current effective Registration Statement on Form N-1A.  This transmission contains a conformed signature page, the manually signed original of which is maintained at the offices of the trust.

The filing serves to register Fidelity Series Emerging Markets Debt Local Currency Fundas a new series of the trust.

This filing contains the Prospectus(es) and Statement(s) of Additional Information for the fund(s) referenced above.

Pursuant to Rule 485(a), the trust elects an effective date of September 8, 2020.  We request your comments by July 27, 2020.

Please contact Renée Fuller at (603) 721-4221 with any questions or comments regarding this filing.

Sincerely,

/s/Renée Fuller

Renée Fuller

Legal Product Group