The US markets ended mostly in green on Tuesday amid traders looked ahead to the release of closely watched inflation data in the coming days. The Labor Department is scheduled to release reports on consumer and producer price inflation in the month of August on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively. The reports were expected to show slowdowns by the rates of consumer and producer price growth compared to the same month a year ago. The data could impact the outlook for interest rates ahead of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy meeting next week. The Fed is almost universally expected to begin lowering interest rates next week, but there is some debate about the size of the rate cut.
On the sectoral front, software stocks turned in a strong performance on the day, resulting in a 1.9 percent jump by the Dow Jones U.S. Software Index. Oracle (ORCL) led the sector higher, soaring by 11.4 percent after reporting better than expected fiscal first quarter results and announcing a strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services. Gold, commercial real and semiconductor stocks also moved notably higher over the course of the session, while a steep drop by the price of crude oil weighed on energy stocks. Banking stocks also showed a significant move to the downside on the day, dragging the KBW Bank Index down by 1.8 percent.
Nasdaq rose 141.28 points or 0.84 percent to 17,025.88 and S&P 500 was up by 24.47 points or 0.45 percent to 5,495.52, while Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 92.63 points or 0.23 percent to 40,736.96.
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