The US markets closed mostly lower on Friday, pulling back from Wednesday’s record levels, but still achieved gains for the week and month. It was the eighth consecutive weekly gain for the Dow and S&P 500. The main indexes spent most of the shortened, post-Thanksgiving session in positive territory after upbeat reports on holiday shopping, but then erased their intraday gains in the final minutes of trading. Retail giants Wal-Mart Stores and Target Corporation reported strong Thanksgiving Day traffic in stores and online as shoppers honed in on big-ticket electronic items. Wal-Mart and Target were among a slew of retailers that began offering their door-buster ‘Black Friday’ sales on Thanksgiving Day, in an effort to boost struggling sales in a tight economy and keep up with online retailers.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 10.92 points or 0.07 percent to 16,086.40, the S&P 500 was down 1.42 points or 0.08 percent to 1,805.81 and Nasdaq added 15.14 points or 0.37 percent to 4,059.89.
Indian ADRs closed mostly in green on Friday; ICICI Bank was up 1.34%, Dr. Reddy’s Lab was up 1.33%, Infosys was up 0.83% and HDFC Bank was up 0.39%. On the other hand, Tata Motors was down by 0.25%.
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