OREANDA-NEWS. March 29, 2012. The US indices mostly fell on Tuesday. S&P 500 Index lost 0.49% while Russell was down by 0.66% with Oil&Gas (-1.23%), Basic Materials (-1.52%) as the laggards. Put/call ratio was at 1.37 and 90-110% skew was at 9.78. Advance/Decline ratio was at 96/398.

Durable goods orders went up by 2.2% vs consensus forecast of 3%. Excluding defensive and transport component, the indicator rose by 1.6%.

Asian indices mostly fell on Thursday. Hang Seng lost 1.57%, Japanese Nikkei was down by 0.67%. S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.13%. Chinese indices lost on average 1%.

Industrial confidence data will be in focus in Europe today.

In the US weekly jobless claims and final GDP reading is to be released.

Earnings season will go on in the US with 1 S&P 500 company and 7 DJ Stoxx 600 companies to report.