The US markets ended higher on Tuesday as dovish comments from Federal Reserve officials lowered expectations for further interest rate hikes and pushed down bond yields. The yield on benchmark 10-year Treasury Note dropped to around 4.65 percent as investors chose to pick up some safe-haven assets amid geopolitical concerns. However, gains remained capped as investors looked ahead to the release of U.S. CPI data and minutes of the Fed's September monetary policy meeting this week for further direction. In the stock specific developments, PepsiCo climbed nearly 2 percent after the company's earnings and revenue beat expectations. Bank of America, Tesla, Boeing, Coca-Cola, 3M, American Express, Walmart, Home Depot, Intel and Verizon closed notably higher.
On the economic front, the International Monetary Fund downgraded the global growth forecast for next year, saying the projections are weakest in decades, while the likelihood of a soft-landing has increased with growing divergences amid modestly easing inflationary pressures. Global growth was forecast at 3.0 percent this year, the IMF said in its October World Economic Outlook (WEO) report released. That was the same as the projection in the July update to the WEO, while higher than the April forecast of 2.8 percent. The growth outlook for 2024 was lowered to 2.9 percent from 3.0 percent seen in both April and July. The projections remain below the historical average of 3.8 percent for 2000-2019.
Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 134.65 points or 0.4 percent to 33,739.3, Nasdaq rose 78.61 points or 0.58 percent to 13,562.84 and S&P 500 was up by 22.58 points or 0.52 percent to 4,358.24.
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