U.S. stocks traded mixed toward the end of trading, with the Dow Jones index gaining around 200 points on Tuesday.

The Dow traded up 0.46% to 43,661.51 while the NASDAQ fell 1.07% to 19,080.23. The S&P 500 also fell, dropping, 0.29% to 5,965.92.

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Leading and Lagging Sectors

Consumer staples shares jumped by 1.3% on Tuesday.

In trading on Tuesday, energy shares fell by 1.3%.

Top Headline

Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. (NASDAQ:KDP) shares gained around 2.5% on Tuesday following better-than-expected quarterly results.

The company reported fourth-quarter adjusted earnings per share of 58 cents, beating the street view of 57 cents. Quarterly sales of $4.07 billion (+5.2% year over year), outpaced the analyst consensus estimate of $4.02 billion.

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Commodities

In commodity news, oil traded down 2.4% to $69.02 while gold traded down 1.3% at $2,924.50.

Silver traded down 2% to $31.95 on Tuesday, while copper rose 0.7% to $4.5470.

Euro zone

European shares were mixed today. The eurozone's STOXX 600 rose 0.15%, Germany's DAX 40 fell 0.07% and France's CAC 40 fell 0.49%. Spain's IBEX 35 Index rose 0.80%, while London's FTSE 100 rose 0.11%.

Asia Pacific Markets

Asian markets closed mostly lower on Tuesday, with Japan's Nikkei falling 1.39%, China's Shanghai Composite Index falling 0.80%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index dipping 1.32% and India's BSE Sensex gaining 0.20%.

Economics

• The Dallas Fed’s general business activity index for Texas's service sector fell by 2.8 points to a reading of 4.6 in February.
• The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose by 4.5% year-over-year in December compared to 4.3% in the previous month.
• The FHFA house prices index increased by 0.4% in December.

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