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Equity Alert: US indices end mixed on uncertainties over West Asia conflict

 

MUMBAI--0745 IST--US indices closed mixed Tuesday as uncertainty regarding the conflict in West Asia continued. Two of the three major indices ended in the red after a volatile session, while the Nasdaq Composite was marginally higher. Monday, all major indices had risen after comments made by US President Donald Trump brought down oil prices to near $90 per barrel from the high of $120 per barrel touched earlier.

 

At 0737 IST, May futures contracts of Brent crude oil were at $87.74 per barrel, largely unchanged from Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal reported that the International Energy Agency, a global intergovernmental body that oversees issues related to oil supply, would conduct its largest ever release of emergency crude oil reserves to alleviate the supply disruption in oil. 

Prices of oil fell Tuesday after US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the US Navy escorted a tanker through the Strait of Hormuz. He later deleted the post following which oil prices rose from their lows, CNBC reported. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt later refuted the claim made in Wright's post.

 

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth's comments that Tuesday would be the "most intense day of strikes inside Iran" fueled the uncertainties regarding the conflict in Iran. CBS News reported the US had seen signs that Iran would deploy mines in the Strait of Hormuz. 

 

"The market was showing some strength and it has given all that back," Tim Ghriskey, senior portfolio strategist at Ingalls & Snyder, told Reuters. "There's a lot of confusion among investors...You see these headlines coming out of the White House that give the market hope, and then clearer heads prevail and markets realise this is nowhere near over."

 

Following are the closing levels of US indices Tuesday:

 

Index	Level	Change in %
S&P 500	6781.48	(-)0.21
NASDAQ Composite	22697.10	0.01
Dow Jones Industrial Average	47706.51	(-)0.07

 

(Shruti Nair)

 

US$1 = INR 91.81

IST, or Indian Standard Time, is five-and-a-half hours ahead of GMT

 

Edited by Tanima Banerjee

 

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