The US markets climbed for yet another day on Tuesday, with two-day advance wiping out last week’s losses, as Wall Street gave an advance thumbs up to the upcoming Federal Reserve monetary-policy announcement. The Federal Open Market Committee has begun its two-day meeting, with a monetary-policy announcement and Bernanke’s news conference due on Wednesday. On the economy front, higher costs of housing and power to run homes pushed consumer prices mildly higher in May, but inflationary pressure in the US was largely subdued and the cost of health care eased again. The consumer-price index rose by a seasonally adjusted 0.1% last month after falling 0.4% in April, the Labor Department stated. Besides, over the past 12 months, the core rate of inflation has risen just 1.7%, signifying little price pressure in the economy. Slow growth at home and overseas has dampened demand and the cost of many raw materials has leveled off or declined. Overall, consumer prices have climbed 1.4% in the past 12 months. Separately, construction on new US houses rebounded 6.8% in May to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 914,000 after a large drop in the previous month, though the gain was below expectations.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 138.38 points or 0.91 percent, to close at 15,318.20, S&P 500 edged higher by 12.77 points or 0.78 percent, to close at 1,651.81 while Nasdaq gained 30.05 points or 0.87 percent, to end at 3,482.18.
The Indian ADRs closed in red on Tuesday, HDFC Bank was down by 1.01%, ICICI Bank was down 0.89%, Infosys was down 0.67%, Tata Motors was down 0.40% and Dr. Reddy’s Lab was down 0.27%.
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