The US markets ended mostly lower on Tuesday, as sell off was sparked by China’s tightening of lending rules and Greece’s surprise elections announcement. The street is expecting that Fed officials meeting next week will likely affirm a plan to start raising short-term interest rates in 2015 and are debating losing a key phrase that rates will stay low for a considerable time. The Federal Reserve passed a proposal for risk-based surcharges on the most important US banks to the global financial system. These surcharges would require the eight US banks with $50 billion or more in consolidated assets to maintain an additional capital supply based on the institution’s system importance. Fed Chair Janet Yellen stated that this, in turn, would encourage such firms to reduce their systemic footprint and lessen the threat that their failure could pose to overall financial stability.
On the economy front, US wholesale inventories rose more than expected in October, prompting some economists to raise their growth forecasts for the fourth quarter. The wholesale inventories increased 0.4%, despite an energy price-related decline in the value of petroleum stocks. September’s wholesale stocks were revised up to show a 0.4% gain. Inventories are a key component of gross domestic product changes. Small-business sentiment reached a seven-year high in November, the National Federation of Independent Business reported. The index rose 2 points to 98.1, the highest level since February 2007, as expectations for business conditions in six months surged and expectations for real sales volumes also gained.
Besides, job openings at US workplaces jumped up to 4.83 million in October, reaching close to the highest level since early 2001, from 4.69 million in September. Compared with same period in the prior year, October’s job openings rose 21%, as private-sector openings increased 23% to 4.42 million, and government positions rose to 413,000 from 393,000. With 9 million unemployed people in October, there were about 1.9 potential job seekers per opening, below September’s ratio of two.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 51.28 points or 0.29 percent to 17,801.20, the S&P 500 inched lower by 0.49 points or 0.02 percent to 2,059.82 while, Nasdaq was up by 25.78 points or 0.54 percent to 4,766.47.
Indian ADRs closed mostly in red on Tuesday; Tata Motors was down by 1.70%, ICICI Bank was down 0.31% and Wipro was down by 0.28%. On the other hand, Dr. Reddy’s Lab was up by 0.28% and HDFC Bank was up by 0.23%.
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