On the US stock market, the Dow Jones index has fallen by 0.67% to 24 797.78, S&P 500 by 0.55% to 2 701.33 and NASDAQ by 0.22% to 7 218.23, APA-Economics reported.
On the European stock markets, FTSE 100 index has increased by 0.48% to 7 281.57 points and France CAC-40 by 0.23% to 5 302.17 points, whereas Germany's DAX dropped by 0.14% to 12 470.49.
In the last auction of COMEX, the price of gold fell by $6,20 to $1 325.90 an ounce and that of silver by 0.17 dollars to $16.51 an ounce.