US stock indexes decrease after country statistics.

On Tuesday, the leading stock indices decrease against the backdrop of weak statistics in the country, evidence of trading data.

As of 17.28 MSK, the Dow Jones industrial index (DJIA) decreased by 0.15% – up to 35344.97 points, high-tech companies NASDAQ – by 0.29%, to 15222.6 points, the index of the broad market S & P 500 – on 0, 17%, up to 4520.9 points.

The pressure on the mood of investors had data statistics, according to which the consumer confidence index in the United States decreased to 113.8 points from the revised figure of July in 125.1 points. Analysts predicted a decline to 124 points.

Also, the decline in US markets is due to some correction after several trading sessions, when NASDAQ and S & P 500 updated their maxima. In addition, traders played statements by the head of the Federal Reserve System (Fed) of Jerome Powell.

In this regard, analyst Deutsche Bank Henry Allen (Henry Allen), who leads the Wall Street Journal newspaper, believes that will address investor attention to labor market data published on Friday. Allen notes that unemployment data is of particular importance for traders after the words of Powell about “obvious progress in motion to maximum employment.” Good indicators can become a signal to start reducing the volume of assets.

Analysts predict that the unemployment rate in the United States decreased in August to 5.2% from 5.4% in July, and the number of economics employed in non-agricultural sectors increased by 750 thousand after growth by 943 thousand.