US markets drifted lower in quiet trading given the Colombus Day holiday, with a late sell-off leaving the benchmark indices in the red albeit both the Dow and Nasdaq touched fresh record intra-day highs earlier in the session - Dow slipped -12-points or -0.06%, with General Electric (down -3.94%) the worst performer in the index after announcing the departure of some senior executives at the end of the year including chief financial officer (CFO) Jeff Bornstein. The broader S&P500 -0.18%. The NASDAQ dipped -0.16% to snap a nine-session winning streak
