Investing.com – U.S. equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Basic Materials, Financials and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NYSE, the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 1.66%, while the S&P 500 index lost 1.53%, and the NASDAQ Composite index fell 1.05%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Dow Jones Industrial Average were Boeing Company (NYSE:BA), which fell 0.96% or 1.26 points to trade at 129.76 at the close. Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) fell 1.00% or 1.10 points to end at 109.27 and Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) was down 1.00% or 1.02 points to 100.97 in late trade.
Biggest losers included EI du Pont de Nemours and Company (NYSE:DD), which lost 3.88% or 1.96 points to trade at 48.60 in late trade. Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) declined 2.53% or 4.68 points to end at 180.38 and International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) shed 2.10% or 3.08 points to 143.70.
The top performers on the S&P 500 were Motorola Solutions Inc (NYSE:MSI) which rose 1.84% to 66.31, Noble Energy Inc (NYSE:NBL) which was up 1.72% to settle at 30.73 and Keurig Green Mountain Inc (NASDAQ:GMCR) which gained 1.65% to close at 58.38.
The worst performers were CONSOL Energy Inc (NYSE:CNX) which was down 5.83% to 13.40 in late trade, NRG Energy Inc (NYSE:NRG) which lost 5.13% to settle at 17.93 and Range Resources Corporation (NYSE:RRC) which was down 4.87% to 36.50 at the close.
The top performers on the NASDAQ Composite were Escalera Resources Co (NASDAQ:ESCR) which rose 40.70% to 0.280, KaloBios Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:KBIO) which was up 32.34% to settle at 4.010 and Authentidate Holding Corp (NASDAQ:ADAT) which gained 23.87% to close at 0.347.
The worst performers were Ascent Solar Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:ASTI) which was down 20.86% to 0.207 in late trade, ATRM Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:ATRM) which lost 16.46% to settle at 2.690 and Stereotaxis Inc (NASDAQ:STXS) which was down 14.60% to 1.170 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 2014 to 528 and 2 ended unchanged; on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, 1586 fell and 986 advanced, while 31 ended unchanged on the New York Stock Exchange.
The CBOE Volatility Index, which measures the implied volatility of S&P 500 options, was up 8.40% to 27.76.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 0.17% or 1.90 to $1122.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 1.59% or 0.74 to hit $46.01 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 2.19% or 1.11 to trade at $49.57 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.25% to 1.1151, while USD/JPY fell 0.87% to 119.03.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.08% at 96.25.