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U.S. shares mixed at close of trade; Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.17%

Published 2018-06-20, 04:25 p/m
© Reuters.  U.S. shares mixed at close of trade; Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.17%
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Investing.com – U.S. equities were mixed at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Consumer Services, Oil & Gas and Technology sectors propelled shares higher while losses in the Telecoms, Basic Materials and Utilities sectors led shares lower.

At the close in NYSE, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.17%, while the S&P 500 index added 0.17%, and the NASDAQ Composite index added 0.72%.

The biggest gainers of the session on the Dow Jones Industrial Average were Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), which rose 1.00% or 1.01 points to trade at 101.87 at the close. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) added 1.04% or 0.55 points to end at 53.48 and Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) was up 0.99% or 1.05 points to 107.15 in late trade.

Biggest losers included The Travelers Companies Inc (NYSE:TRV), which lost 2.47% or 3.17 points to trade at 124.99 in late trade. McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:MCD) declined 1.46% or 2.41 points to end at 162.56 and International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) shed 0.88% or 1.27 points to 142.63.

The top performers on the S&P 500 were Twenty-First Century Fox Inc A (NASDAQ:FOXA) which rose 7.54% to 48.08, Twenty-First Century Fox Inc (NASDAQ:FOX) which was up 7.38% to settle at 47.56 and Apache Corporation (NYSE:APA) which gained 5.59% to close at 45.68.

The worst performers were Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX) which was down 9.07% to 52.22 in late trade, Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) which lost 7.46% to settle at 42.82 and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co (NYSE:HPE) which was down 4.69% to 15.15 at the close.

The top performers on the NASDAQ Composite were Naked Brand Group Inc (NASDAQ:NAKD) which rose 434.59% to 8.500, CLPS Inc (NASDAQ:CLPS) which was up 55.67% to settle at 16.75 and Forward Industries Inc (NASDAQ:FORD) which gained 54.93% to close at 2.200.

The worst performers were Anika Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:ANIK) which was down 37.62% to 28.77 in late trade, Gevo Inc (NASDAQ:GEVO) which lost 37.13% to settle at 12.2600 and Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc (NASDAQ:HMNY) which was down 30.65% to 0.312 at the close.

Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1888 to 1164 and 124 ended unchanged; on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, 1630 rose and 923 declined, while 111 ended unchanged on the New York Stock Exchange.

The CBOE Volatility Index, which measures the implied volatility of S&P 500 options, was down 4.04% to 12.81.

In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.63% or 8.00 to $1270.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.79% or 0.51 to hit $65.41 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 1.15% or 0.86 to trade at $74.22 a barrel.

EUR/USD was down 0.05% to 1.1583, while USD/JPY rose 0.28% to 110.36.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.10% at 94.74.

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