Investing.com – U.S. equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Telecoms and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NYSE, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.24%, while the S&P 500 index fell 0.26%, and the NASDAQ Composite index fell 0.09%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Dow Jones Industrial Average were EI du Pont de Nemours and Company (N:DD), which rose 2.78% or 1.68 points to trade at 62.05 at the close. UnitedHealth Group Incorporated (N:UNH) added 2.44% or 2.84 points to end at 119.37 and Pfizer Inc (N:PFE) was up 2.43% or 0.83 points to 34.99 in late trade.
Biggest losers included International Business Machines (N:IBM), which lost 4.04% or 5.80 points to trade at 137.86 in late trade. Caterpillar Inc (N:CAT) declined 1.58% or 1.13 points to end at 70.39 and United Technologies Corporation (N:UTX) shed 1.35% or 1.35 points to 98.88.
The top performers on the S&P 500 were Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide (N:HOT) which rose 9.13% to 74.81, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (O:WBA) which was up 6.35% to settle at 95.16 and Biogen Inc (O:BIIB) which gained 5.84% to close at 290.63.
The worst performers were CONSOL Energy Inc (N:CNX) which was down 21.22% to 6.98 in late trade, Cummins Inc (N:CMI) which lost 8.70% to settle at 102.35 and Xerox Corporation (N:XRX) which was down 7.38% to 9.29 at the close.
The top performers on the NASDAQ Composite were Perseon Corp (O:PRSN) which rose 142.96% to 0.680, River Valley Bancorp (O:RIVR) which was up 46.07% to settle at 32.69 and Trivascular (O:TRIV) which gained 38.89% to close at 7.00.
The worst performers were Liquid Hlgs (O:LIQD) which was down 50.40% to 0.037 in late trade, Endologix Inc (O:ELGX) which unchanged 0.00% to settle at 8.77 and Rent-A-Center Inc (O:RCII) which was down 29.95% to 18.06 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1964 to 568 and 1 ended unchanged; on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, 1830 fell and 718 advanced, while 45 ended unchanged on the New York Stock Exchange.
The CBOE Volatility Index, which measures the implied volatility of S&P 500 options, was up 0.98% to 15.44.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was up 0.07% or 0.80 to $1167.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 1.73% or 0.76 to hit $43.22 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 1.48% or 0.70 to trade at $46.84 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.14% to 1.1041, while USD/JPY fell 0.52% to 120.46.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.11% at 97.02.