The US markets closed lower on Monday, with the S&P 500 and the Dow snapping a six-day winning streak, as investors weighed prospects for tax cuts while parsing the latest corporate earnings for clues on where stocks are headed in the near term. A flurry of earnings reports drove individual stocks on Monday. Quarterly results are a key driver for stocks with nearly 200 S&P 500 companies slated to report earnings this week. According to a recent poll of economists, the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in December and twice next year, who now worry that the central bank will slow its tightening because of expectations that inflation will remain low. Most respondents expected the nation’s economy to determine future rate hikes, but a change in regime at the Fed could also affect monetary policy.
On the economy front, a snap back in factory activity from August to September accounted for a sharp improvement in the Chicago Fed’s national activity index last month, but it will take a few more months of noticeable gains to rescue the report’s less-volatile average, which remained negative. The Chicago Fed’s index of national economic activity recovered to positive 0.17 in September from a downwardly revised negative 0.37 in August in what was yet another turn for an especially volatile measure over the past handful of months. The index’s less-volatile, three-month moving average remained unchanged at negative 0.16 in September.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 54.67 points or 0.23 percent to 23,273.96, the Nasdaq dropped 42.22 points or 0.64 percent to 6,586.83, and the S&P 500 edged lower by 10.23 points or 0.40 percent to 2,564.98.
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