Investing.com – U.S. equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Industrials, Consumer Goods and Consumer Services sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NYSE, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.16%, while the S&P 500 index declined 0.30%, and the NASDAQ Composite index fell 0.65%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Dow Jones Industrial Average were Verizon Communications Inc (NYSE:VZ), which rose 1.91% or 0.91 points to trade at 48.54 at the close. EI du Pont de Nemours and Company (NYSE:DD) added 1.78% or 1.22 points to end at 69.90 and International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) was up 1.05% or 1.60 points to 153.41 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Boeing Company (NYSE:BA), which lost 1.52% or 2.21 points to trade at 143.33 in late trade. Caterpillar Inc (NYSE:CAT) declined 1.34% or 1.12 points to end at 83.00 and Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) shed 1.23% or 1.24 points to 99.95.
The top performers on the S&P 500 were Level 3 Communications Inc (NYSE:LVLT) which rose 10.55% to 51.87, CenturyLink Inc (NYSE:CTL) which was up 9.73% to settle at 31.00 and F5 Networks Inc (NASDAQ:FFIV) which gained 9.58% to close at 130.99.
The worst performers were O'Reilly Automotive Inc (NASDAQ:ORLY) which was down 8.72% to 253.00 in late trade, Teradata Corporation (NYSE:TDC) which lost 8.08% to settle at 27.66 and National Oilwell Varco Inc (NYSE:NOV) which was down 7.80% to 33.71 at the close.
The top performers on the NASDAQ Composite were Immune Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:IMNP) which rose 35.41% to 0.2505, Lightbridge Corp (NASDAQ:LTBR) which was up 35.00% to settle at 1.6200 and PCM Inc (NASDAQ:PCMI) which gained 28.96% to close at 23.96.
The worst performers were Proteostasis Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:PTI) which was down 33.77% to 8.51 in late trade, Rewalk Robotics Ltd (NASDAQ:RWLK) which lost 28.09% to settle at 3.20 and Tronc Inc (NASDAQ:TRNC) which was down 27.82% to 12.27 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 2258 to 897 and 94 ended unchanged; on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, 1591 fell and 838 advanced, while 165 ended unchanged on the New York Stock Exchange.
The CBOE Volatility Index, which measures the implied volatility of S&P 500 options, was up 7.87% to 15.36.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was up 0.19% or 2.40 to $1269.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 0.89% or 0.44 to hit $49.62 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 0.04% or 0.02 to trade at $50.34 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.02% to 1.0899, while USD/JPY fell 0.06% to 105.22.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.33% at 98.92.