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US markets end lower on retail sales concern

12 May 2017 Evaluate

The US markets despite showing a significant recovery closed in red on Thursday. The major averages climbed well off their worst levels of the day but remained stuck in negative territory. The markets were down in the early deals on some weak earnings and overlooked the Labor Department report showing a bigger than expected increase in producer prices in the month of April. The Labor Department said its producer price index for final demand climbed by 0.5 percent in April after edging down by 0.1 percent in March. With the monthly increase, the annual rate of producer price growth accelerated to 2.5 percent in April from 2.3 percent in March. Prices rose at the fastest rate since February of 2012. A separate report from the Labor Department showed that initial jobless claims unexpectedly edged lower in the week ended May 6th. The report said initial jobless claims dipped to 236,000, a decrease of 2,000 from the previous week's unrevised level of 238,000.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down by 23.69 points or 0.11 percent to 20,919.42, while the S&P 500 was up by 5.19 points or 0.22 percent to 2,394.44 and the Nasdaq ended lower by 13.18 points or 0.22 percent to 6,115.96.

The Indian ADRs made a mixed closing on Thursday, HDFC Bank was up by 0.61%, Dr Reddy’s was up by 0.57% and Tata Motors was up by 0.72%. On the other hand ICICI Bank was down by 0.02% and Infy was down by 0.03%.

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