The US markets ended mostly in green on Wednesday as the traders took a cautious approach to assess the recent rally by the markets, which has seen the S&P 500 rebound strongly from its early April lows to turn positive for 2025. Besides, trade deals between the US and China and the UK have helped ease concerns about President Donald Trump's trade policies, uncertainty about the eventual outcome continues to hang over the markets. Meanwhile, Traders also were reluctant to make more significant moves ahead of the release of a slew of US economic data on Thursday, including producer prices, retail sales and industrial production. Further, investors maintained risk adverse approach ahead of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s speech.
On the sectoral front, gold stocks witnessed significant weakness along with the price of the precious metal, dragging the NYSE Arca Gold Bugs Index down by 2.8 percent. Besides, considerable weakness is also visible among pharmaceutical stocks, as reflected by the 1.7 percent loss being posted by the NYSE Arca Pharmaceutical Index.
Dow Jones Industrial Average slumped 89.37 points or 0.21 percent to 42,051.06, while Nasdaq gained136.72 points or 0.72 percent to 19,146.81 and S&P 500 rose 6.03 points or 0.10 percent to 5,892.58.
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