The main U.S. and European stock indices ended yesterday's trading session in the red. In the United States Dow Jones fell by 0.5%, S&P 500 - by 0.72%, NASDAQ - by 1.25%. Investors preferred to walk away from the risk in anticipation of the publication of the minutes of the latest meeting of the Federal Reserve. According to analysts, we should expect a hawkish tone from the regulator, including being prepared for plans to raise the rate by 100 bps, Prime news agency reports.

In addition, as a negative factor were the weak financial results of the company Target (American chain of stores), which showed a nearly tenfold reduction of net profit in the second quarter - to $183 million. Against this background, the fall of its shares during the day reached almost 4%.

In Europe DAX (Germany) lost 2.04%, FTSE 100 (Great Britain) - 0.27%, CAC 40 (France) - 0.97%. The pressure was given by the new record of the consumer inflation in Great Britain for the last 40 years which reached 10,1% in July. Negative news from energy company Uniper, which received a net loss of €12.4 in the first half of the year, also had an impact. This news led to a 12% drop in its shares.