US markets drifted in a low volume session - Dow down -77-points or -0.30% , Caterpillar Inc and Boeing Company - two bellwethers of global trade - fell -2% and -0.7% respectively. The broader S&P500 lost -0.17%, with Information Technology (up +0.18%) the only primary sector to advance, with Materials (down -0.70%), Energy (-0.52%) and Financials (-0.51%) the key underperformers. The technology-centric NASDAQ eased -0.13% as Alibaba (down -3.2%) and Netflix Inc (-1.5%) relinquished earlier session gains.
