The US markets settled in red on Monday as investors largely stayed cautious, reassessing the expected path of Federal Reserve interest rate hikes amid falling inflation expectations. However, losses remained capped as new orders for US manufactured durable goods increased by more than expected in the month of May, according to a report released by the Commerce Department. The report showed durable goods orders climbed by 0.7 percent in May after rising by 0.4 percent in April. Street had expected orders to inch up by 0.1 percent. Meanwhile, after reporting steep drops in US pending home sales over the past several months, the National Association of Realtors released a report showing an unexpected rebound in pending home sales in the month of May.
A report from the National Association of Realtors showed the pending home sales index climbed 0.7 percent to 99.9 in May after plunging by 4 percent to a revised 99.2 in April. The increase surprised participants, who had expected pending home sales to tumble by another 3.7 percent. In the stock specific developments, Salesforce.com, Nike, Boeing, American Express, Walt Disney and 3M shed 1 to 2.5 percent. Shares of Spirit Airlines ended nearly 8% down after the company announced that it would accept Frontier Group's latest takeover bid. However, Shares of BioNTech climbed 7.2 percent, lifted by an announcement from the company that its Omicron-based Covid-19 booster improves immune response to that variant.
Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 62.42 points or 0.2 percent to 31,438.26, Nasdaq dropped 83.07 points or 0.72 percent to 11,524.55 and S&P 500 was down by 11.63 points or 0.3 percent to 3,900.11.
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