US markets end in green on Tuesday

26 Mar 2025 Evaluate

US markets jumped bounced back and forth across the unchanged line before eventually closing in positive territory on Tuesday. The Wall Street experienced a choppy trade as traders remained cautious amid ongoing uncertainty about President Trump's tariff plans following recent reports he plans to take a narrower approach to new tariffs. He indicated that he may give a lot of countries breaks on reciprocal tariffs that are set to take effect April 2nd. However, the president has said that he planning to impose tariffs on the automotive and pharmaceutical industries in the very near future and later added the lumber and semiconductor industries to his list of targets. Besides, a report from the Conference Board showing consumer confidence in the U.S. deteriorated by more than expected in the month of March seems to have made investors nervous. The Conference Board has said that its consumer confidence index tumbled to 92.9 in March from an upwardly revised 100.1 in February, while street had expected the consumer confidence index to slump to 94.2 from the 98.3 originally reported for the previous month. 

Meanwhile, the peace talks are underway between Russia - Ukraine and as part of Black Sea cease fire agreement, Russia has demanded to restore the link between Russian banks and International financial systems, while the US counterparts have showed optimism in helping Russia to seek lifting of international sanctions on Russian agriculture and fertiliser exports. On sectoral front, despite the higher close by the broader markets, pharmaceutical stocks moved sharply lower on the day, dragging the NYSE Arca Pharmaceutical Index down by 2.0 percent. Considerable weakness was also visible among utilities stocks, as reflected by the 1.6 percent loss posted by the Dow Jones Utility Average. Airline, healthcare and biotechnology stocks also saw notable weakness, while gold stocks moved higher along with the price of the precious metal, driving the NYSE Arca Gold Bugs Index up by 1.6 percent.

Dow Jones Industrial Average inched up 4.18 points or 0.01 percent to 42,587.50, Nasdaq rose 83.26 points or 0.46 percent to 18,271.86 and S&P 500 was up by 9.08 points or 0.16 percent to 5,776.65. 


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