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US markets closed mostly lower on disappointing earnings

20 Jul 2013 Evaluate

The US markets closed mostly lower on Friday, as earnings were in focus on Wall Street. The S&P 500 index eked out gains to end at another all-time high, while losses for the technology sector weighed on the Dow industrials and the Nasdaq Composite after disappointing earnings from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Microsoft Corporation. Advanced Micro Devices posted the biggest drop in the S&P 500 index after the chip maker reported a quarterly loss. Leading blue-chip losses, Microsoft too fell, a day after the software manufacturer and Dow component reported quarterly results below expectations. The Group of 20 major economies will pledge to curb economic policy uncertainty that have caused volatile financial markets and tighter financial conditions. Finance leaders from the G-20 meeting in Moscow agreed to develop an action plan for the G-20 leaders’ summit to be held in St. Petersburg in early September.

Meanwhile, Moody’s Investors Service upgraded the outlook for US government debt to ‘stable’ from ‘negative’ and affirmed the country’s blue chip Aaa rating. The rating agency cited a surprising drop in the federal deficit - the difference between what the government collects in taxes and what it spends. The US government is on track to report its lowest annual deficit in five years. Moody’s had lowered the outlook to ‘negative’ two years ago.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 4.80 points or 0.03 percent to 15,543.70, the Nasdaq was down 23.66 points or 0.66 percent to 3,587.61, while the S&P 500 added 2.72 points or 0.16 percent to 1,692.09.

The Indian ADRs ended mostly in red on Friday, ICICI Bank was down by 0.54%, Sterlite Industries was down 0.16% and Dr. Reddy’s Lab was down 0.08%. On the other hand, Tata Motors was up 0.41% and Infosys was up 0.14%.

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