US markets closed lower erasing triple-digit gains

14 Jan 2015 Evaluate

The US markets closed lower on Tuesday; punctuated by massive triple-digit swings in the key benchmarks, slightly lower. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Narayana Kocherlakota stated that rock-bottom borrowing costs in the bond market are not a positive vote on the economic outlook. Kocherlakota, the dovish president, repeated his long-held argument that the US central bank is planning a too-hasty retreat this year from near-zero interest rates. Kocherlakota added that a reference policy rule would judge the Fed based on what choices it was making rather than on how the economy is performing relative to inflation and employment goals.

On the economy front, the federal government ran a budget surplus of $2 billion in December. The December figure brings the government’s budget deficit for the first three months of fiscal 2015 to $177 billion, which is 2% higher than the first quarter of fiscal 2014. The government spent $333 billion in December, up 44% from December 2013. Total receipts were $335 billion, an increase of 18%. The December surplus compared to a $53 billion surplus in the same month a year ago, but part of the difference was due to shifts in the timing of some transactions. A measure of small-business confidence rose in December to the highest level in more than eight years. The NFIB small-business optimism index rose 2.3 points to 100.4, with gains in eight out of 10 components of the survey.

Meanwhile, job openings at US workplaces rose to 4.97 million in November, the highest level since early 2001, from 4.83 million in October. Compared with same period in the prior year, November’s job openings rose 21%, as private-sector openings increased 20% to 4.51 million, and government positions rose to 459,000 from 369,000. With 9.07 million unemployed people in November, there were about 1.82 potential job seekers per opening, below October’s ratio of 1.86.

Dow Jones Industrial Average declined by 27.16 points or 0.15 percent to 17,613.68, Nasdaq declined by 3.21 points or 0.07 percent to 4,661.50 and S&P 500 dropped 5.23 points or 0.26 percent to 2,023.03.

Indian ADRs closed mostly in green on Tuesday; Tata Motors was up 0.87%, Infosys was up 0.34% and Wipro was up 0.21%. On the other hand, HDFC Bank was down 0.25% and ICICI Bank was down by 0.18%.

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