US markets closed mostly in green on Fed moves

11 Jul 2013 Evaluate

The US markets ended mostly in green on Wednesday, after minutes from the Federal Reserve’s last meeting had multiple members looking for more improvement in the labor market before cutting the pace of central-bank bond purchases. About half of the Federal Reserve’s 19 member policy-making committee stated they would support ending its $85 billion-a-month bond-buying program late this year, while the minutes showed that many other members wanted asset purchases would likely be needed into 2014. A few wanted to stop the purchases immediately. Bernanke mentioned that the central bank expects unemployment to be around 7% when the central back is able to stop buying bonds altogether. The committee is scheduled to hold its next meeting on July 30-31.

On the economy front the Commerce Department reported that US wholesale inventories dropped 0.5% in May, while wholesale sales climbed 1.6%. At May’s sales pace, the inventory-to-sales ratio fell to 1.18 months from 1.21. Inventories declined by a revised 0.1% in April instead of rising 0.2% as initially estimated. Sales rose 0.7% in April. Inventories of durable goods slid 0.3% in May, while inventories of nondurables decreased by a larger 0.8%.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 8.68 points or 0.06 percent to 15,291.70, the Nasdaq gained 16.50 points or 0.47 percent to 3,520.76 and the S&P 500 inched higher by 0.30 points or 0.02 percent to 1,652.62.

The Indian ADRs ended mostly in red on Wednesday, HDFC Bank was down by 0.52%, ICICI Bank was down by 0.27% and Tata Motors was down 0.13%. On the flip side, Infosys gained 0.47% and Wipro was up by 0.08%.

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