The US markets ended lower on Tuesday on profit taking contributed to weakness on Wall Street after the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq ended Monday's trading at new record closing highs. Weakness also prevailed in the markets as the Conference Board showed a substantial deterioration in US consumer sentiment in the month of August. The Conference Board said its consumer confidence index tumbled to 113.8 in August from a downwardly revised 125.1 in July. Street had expected the consumer confidence index to drop to 123.0 from the 129.1 originally reported for the previous month. With the bigger than expected decrease, the index slumped to its lowest level since hitting 95.2 in February of 2021.
Concerns about the Delta variant-and, to a lesser degree, rising gas and food prices-resulted in a less favorable view of current economic conditions and short-term growth prospects, said Lynn Franco, Senior Director of Economic Indicators at The Conference Board. She added while the resurgence of COVID-19 and inflation concerns have dampened confidence, it is too soon to conclude this decline will result in consumers significantly curtailing their spending in the months ahead.
Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 39.11 points or 0.11 percent to 35,360.73, Nasdaq lost 6.66 points or 0.04 percent to 15,259.24 and S&P 500 was down by 6.11 points or 0.13 percent to 4,522.68.
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