OREANDA-NEWS. February 28, 2012. The US indices closed mixed on Monday. S&P 500 Index added 0.14% while Russell was down by 0.03% with Financials (+0.86%) as laggards and Technology (+0.56%) as the leaders. Put/call ratio went down to 1.3 and 90-110% skew was unchanged at 10.77.

Pending home sales inched up 2.0% vs consensus forecast of a 1.0% rise.

Dallas Fed Manufacturing Activity rose to 17.8 vs consensus forecast of 15.8.

Of 449 S&P 500 Index constituents the EPS of 303 and revenues of 254 companies beat expectations so far. In Europe 93 DJ Stoxx 600 companies topped expectations while 109 missed estimates.

Asian indices were mixed on Tuesday. Chinese indices lost on average 1-1.1%.

Hang Seng added 0.53%, Kospi – went up by 0.49%, Japanese Nikkei lost 0.06%. S&P/ASX 200 was down by 0.11%.

German CPI, EU Industrial Confidence data for Europe, Durable Goods Orders, CBOT Consumer Confidence for the US will be in focus.

Earnings season will go on in the US with 11 S&P 500 companies and 19 DJ Stoxx 600 companies to report.