The US markets ended mostly higher on Wednesday despite mixed earnings and economic data and antitrust probes into leading US technology stocks. Investors were encouraged by reports that a US delegation headed by US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is set to travel to China to revive trade talks next week. However, Dow Jones Industrial Average ended lower after disappointing earnings from Boeing and Caterpillar. Boeing Company lost 3%, after the aerospace giant swung to a loss in the second quarter. Caterpillar fell 4.5%, after the manufacturer of construction and mining equipment reported quarterly profit that fell below Street expectations, continuing a trend of subdued performance in industrial stocks during the second-quarter earnings season.
On the economic front, new home sales in the US showed a substantial rebound in the month of June, according to a report released by the Commerce Department. The Commerce Department said new home sales spiked by 7.0% to an annual rate of 646,000 in June after plunging by 8.2% to a revised rate of 604,000 in May. Street had expected new home sales to jump by 5.4% to a rate of 660,000 from the 626,000 originally reported for the previous month. The bigger than expected rebound was largely due to a significant turnaround in new home sales in the West, which surged up by 50.4% to a rate of 185,000 in June after plummeting by 38.5% to a rate of 123,000 in May. The report also said new home sales in the South edged up by 0.3% to a rate of 382,000, while new home sales in the Midwest tumbled by 26.3% to a rate of 56,000 and new home sales in the Northeast fell by 4.2% to a rate of 23,000.
Nasdaq gained 70.10 points or 0.85 percent to 8321.50 and S&P 500 was up by 14.09 points or 0.47 percent to 3019.56, while Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 79.22 points or 0.29 percent to 27269.97.
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