Fresh trade fears weighed on US equity markets - Dow down -81-points or -0.32%, with 3M Company (down -2.48%) and Caterpillar Inc (-3.66%) the key laggards after leading the index higher in the previous session. The broader S&P500 -0.10%, NASDAQ +0.46%. with Apple Inc climbing +5.9% and touching a record high (US$201.76). A share price of US$207.05 would see Apple surpass a market capitalisation of US$1 trillion. Oracle Corp fell -0.69% following a CNBC report that Amazon.com Inc (up +1.11%) will completely stop using Oracle software by 2020.
