The US markets ended lower on Monday as worries about potential collapse of China’s real estate firm Evergrande dented sentiment. China’s property giant Evergrande, the world’s most indebted property developer with more than 300 billion dollars of liabilities, has to pay interests on its bonds with a payment deadline due on Thursday. The company has warned more than once that it could default. Traders also looked ahead to the Federal Reserve’s highly anticipated monetary policy announcement on Wednesday. The central bank is widely expected to leave monetary policy unchanged but could address the outlook for its asset purchase program.
The minutes of the Fed’s last meeting signaled the central bank was prepared to begin scaling back asset purchases by the end of the year. With some recent disappointing economic data suggesting the Fed could push back its plans, traders are likely to pay close attention to the wording of the post-meeting statement. On the sectoral front, Shares from metal, energy, financial, semiconductor and housing sectors were under pressure. Technology stocks dropped as well.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 614.41 points or 1.78 percent to 33,970.47, the Nasdaq dropped 330.06 points or 2.19 percent to 14,713.9 and the S&P 500 edged down by 75.26 points or 1.7 percent to 4,357.73 .
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