The US markets after notching their eighth weekly gains out of last nine ran out of steam on Friday as bourses after meandering in negative territory for most part of the day, crept lower on Friday, dragging the Dow Jones industrial for its first weekly loss following two weeks of gains. One of the few bright spots was Yelp, the online restaurant review site, which surged 64 percent in its debut. Yelp ended its first trading day at $24.58, far above its initial public offering price of $15. However, energy shares, which were the big losers in the broad decline, falling alongside crude oil prices and other cyclical groups, including industrials and financials, that were on losing altitude, were to be blamed for the dismal show of the bourses on the last trading week.
In Europe, sentiment turned bearish post the release of weak economic data. Retail sales in Germany fell in January while analysts had expected a slight increase. Also, data showed that joblessness in Spain continued to increase in February. Spain already had the highest unemployment rate in the euro zone at 23.3%.
For the week, the Dow inched down 0.05%, while the S&P 500 rose 0.3% and the Nasdaq added 0.4%.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed dipped by 2.73 points, or 0.02 percent, at 12,977.57. The S&P 500 slipped 4.46 points, or 0.32 percent, at 1,369.63, while the Nasdaq shed 12.78 points, or 0.43 percent, at 2,976.19.
Indian ADRs mostly concluded on a negative note on Friday, Dr. Reddy's Lab was down by 0.24%, HDFC Bank down by 0.09%, Infosys technologies down by 0.19% , On the flip side, ICICI bank was up by 0.27%.
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