Investing.com – U.S. equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Utilities, Oil & Gas and Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NYSE, the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 0.03%, while the S&P 500 index lost 0.08%, and the NASDAQ Composite index declined 0.02%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Dow Jones Industrial Average were Wal-Mart Stores Inc (NYSE:WMT), which rose 2.06% or 1.47 points to trade at 72.90 at the close. Boeing Co (NYSE:BA) added 0.83% or 1.48 points to end at 178.85 and United Technologies Corporation (NYSE:UTX) was up 0.52% or 0.58 points to 112.99 in late trade.
Biggest losers included E I du Pont de Nemours & Co (NYSE:DD), which lost 0.73% or 0.59 points to trade at 80.05 in late trade. Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) declined 0.42% or 0.47 points to end at 112.58 and Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) shed 0.39% or 0.43 points to 108.86.
The top performers on the S&P 500 were Vulcan Materials Company (NYSE:VMC) which rose 3.89% to 123.99, Incyte Corporation (NASDAQ:INCY) which was up 3.40% to settle at 140.11 and FMC Corporation (NYSE:FMC) which gained 3.07% to close at 75.24.
The worst performers were Under Armour Inc C (NYSE:UA) which was down 3.20% to 18.430 in late trade, CarMax Inc (NYSE:KMX) which lost 2.59% to settle at 56.50 and Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation (NYSE:COG) which was down 2.32% to 24.41 at the close.
The top performers on the NASDAQ Composite were China Cmrcl (NASDAQ:CCCR) which rose 136.00% to 2.3600, Hongli Clean Energy Technologies Corp (NASDAQ:CETC) which was up 101.73% to settle at 4.6399 and Akari Therapeutics PLC (NASDAQ:AKTX) which gained 26.71% to close at 18.500.
The worst performers were DryShips Inc (NASDAQ:DRYS) which was down 32.04% to 0.70 in late trade, Yulong Eco-Materials Ltd (NASDAQ:YECO) which lost 28.09% to settle at 0.374 and Catalyst Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ:CBIO) which was down 25.85% to 5.450 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1657 to 1532 and 48 ended unchanged; on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, 1245 rose and 1230 declined, while 135 ended unchanged on the New York Stock Exchange.
The CBOE Volatility Index, which measures the implied volatility of S&P 500 options, was up 3.71% to 12.85.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.28% or 3.55 to $1256.85 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 1.03% or 0.53 to hit $52.23 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.55% or 0.30 to trade at $55.19 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.42% to 1.0599, while USD/JPY rose 0.24% to 111.08.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.42% at 101.03.