The US markets ended in red on Tuesday, extending their previous session’s losses, as traders looked ahead to the Labor Department's report on consumer price inflation in the month of June. Street currently expect the report to show an acceleration in the annual rate of consumer price growth to 8.8 percent in June from 8.6 percent in May. Further, concerns about the emergence of a new, more infectious Covid-19 strain in several parts of the world also continued to weigh on investors' minds. Many cities in China are already taking steps to stop the spread of the new strain, leading to worries about another round of painful lockdowns, especially in Shanghai or Beijing. A Covid-19 resurgence and the resumption of Chinese lockdowns could put further pressure on a global economy that is already being squeezed by aggressive monetary policy tightening by the world's central banks.
On the sectoral front, energy stocks saw substantial weakness on the day, moving sharply lower along with the price of crude oil. Crude for August delivery plummeted $8.25 or 7.9 percent to $95.84 a barrel, closing below $100 a barrel for the first time in two months. Reflecting the weakness in the energy sector, the Philadelphia Oil Service Index plunged by 3.9 percent and the NYSE Arca Oil Index tumbled by 2.4 percent. Significant weakness was also visible among gold stocks, as reflected by the 2.4 percent slump by the NYSE Arca Gold Bugs Index. The index dove to its worst closing level in over two years amid a decrease by the price of the precious metal.
Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 192.51 points or 0.62 percent to 30,981.33, Nasdaq dropped 107.87 points or 0.95 percent to 11,264.73 and S&P 500 was down by 35.63 points or 0.92 percent to 3,818.8.
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