The US markets closed mostly lower on Tuesday, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average extended its winning streak to eight sessions and finished at a record high for a sixth straight day. Fears that rally has left stocks stretched left investors reluctant to push equities higher. Meanwhile, Federal Reserve officials are looking more confidently toward an interest-rate increase before the end of the year, possibly as soon as September, as financial markets have stabilized after Britain’s vote to leave the European Union and the economy shows signs of picking up. On the economy front, housing starts jumped in June but from downwardly-revised levels earlier in the year, pointing to a market for newly-constructed homes that continues to grind forward slowly and steadily. Starts were up 4.8% to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 1.19 million. But May figures, originally reported as 1.16 million, were revised down to 1.14 million. Permits, which foreshadow starts in the future, rose 1.5% to an annualized 1.15 million. For the second quarter, starts are averaging a 1.16 million rate, up fractionally from the 1.15 million pace averaged in the first quarter. But permits are running at the same 1.14 million pace. Single-family starts, which are tracked as a signal on the health of the market for home purchases, jumped 4.4% in June to a 778,000 pace, but are down about 3.6% in the second quarter compared to the first three months of the year.
The Nasdaq lost 19.41 points or 0.38 percent to 5,036.37, S&P 500 was down by 3.11 points or 0.14 percent to 2,163.78 while, Dow Jones Industrial Average was up by 25.96 points or 0.14 percent to 18,559.01.
The Indian ADRs closed in red; Wipro was down by 0.81%, Infosys was down 0.17%, Tata Motors was down 0.10%, HDFC Bank was down 0.09% and ICICI Bank was down 0.05%.
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