The US markets closed lower on Wednesday, on selloff in technology stocks following disappointing results from Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corporation. Investors began to focus on next week’s Federal Reserve meeting. Speculation that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in September is building again after a Greek bailout deal calmed markets last week and inflation showed signs of picking up. Last week’s bailout deal and signs of a pickup of growth in China largely eased concerns about global economic turmoil. Fed Chair Janet Yellen told Congress last week that delaying a rate hike could force the central banks to bump up rates more rapidly - a scenario Yellen stated that she doesn’t prefer. On the economy front, home prices rose a seasonally adjusted 0.4% in May, the Federal Housing Finance Agency stated, which tracks deals involving mortgages backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Compared to May 2014, prices were up 5.7%. Existing homes sold in June at the fastest pace in more than eight years, and the median sales price hit a record. Sales of existing homes rose 3.2% in June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.49 million, the fastest pace since February 2007. Meanwhile, the median sales price rose 6.5% over the past year to a record of $236,400. The report gives markets a look at how buying activity is faring during this year’s hot home-selling season. The sales pace is down about 24% from a bubble peak.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 68.25 points or 0.38 percent to 17,851.04, the Nasdaq was down 36.35 points or 0.70 percent to 5,171.77 while the S&P 500 dropped 5.06 points or 0.24 percent to 2,114.15.
The Indian ADRs markets ended mostly in green on Wednesday, Dr. Reddy’s Lab was up 0.73%, HDFC Bank was up 0.61%, Wipro was up 0.30% and Infosys was up by 0.20%. On the other hand, Tata Motors was down 0.47%.
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