The US markets ended lower on Tuesday as some traders to cash in on recent strength in the markets. Cautiousness on markets came as traders looked ahead to the Federal Reserve's monetary policy announcement on Wednesday. The Fed is widely expected to leave interest rates unchanged at near-zero levels, although the central bank could provide additional guidance regarding how long it plans to keep rates at their current levels. However, downside remained capped on optimism that the US is seeing the light at the end of the tunnel of the coronavirus pandemic. A number of states such as George, South Carolina and Colorado have already stated reopening, while other states like New York have announced plans to begin reopening in the coming weeks. President Donald Trump's administration has also unveiled a plan to ramp up testing, which experts have said is the most important step toward reopening the economy.
On the economic data front, Consumer confidence in the US deteriorated significantly in the month of April, according to a report released by the Conference Board, although the report also showed an improvement in consumer expectations. The Conference Board said its consumer confidence index plunged to 86.9 in April after tumbling to a downwardly revised 118.8 in March. Street had expected the index to plummet to 90.0 from the 120.0 originally reported for the previous month. The steep drop by the headline index came as the present situation index showed a record nosedive to 76.4 in April from 166.7 in March. Consumers saying current business conditions are good slumped to 20.8 percent from 39.2 percent, while those climbing conditions are bad spiked to 45.2 percent from 11.7 percent.
Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 32.23 points or 0.13 percent to 24,101.55, Nasdaq lost 122.43 points 1.4 percent to 8,607.73 and S&P 500 was down by 15.09 points or 0.52 percent to 2,863.39.
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