Investing.com – U.S. equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Financials and Basic Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NYSE, the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 0.24%, while the S&P 500 index declined 0.12%, and the NASDAQ Composite index declined 0.11%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Dow Jones Industrial Average were Verizon Communications Inc (NYSE:VZ), which rose 1.94% or 0.88 points to trade at 46.20 at the close. 3M Company (NYSE:MMM) added 0.88% or 1.77 points to end at 202.44 and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) was up 0.64% or 0.45 points to 70.41 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS), which lost 1.96% or 4.36 points to trade at 218.42 in late trade. JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE:JPM) declined 1.71% or 1.46 points to end at 83.90 and Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) shed 0.63% or 0.66 points to 104.06.
The top performers on the S&P 500 were First Solar Inc (NASDAQ:FSLR) which rose 7.22% to 39.50, BorgWarner Inc (NYSE:BWA) which was up 3.28% to settle at 42.19 and Micron Technology Inc (NASDAQ:MU) which gained 3.19% to close at 30.71.
The worst performers were Kinder Morgan Inc (NYSE:KMI) which was down 4.31% to 18.42 in late trade, Southwestern Energy Company (NYSE:SWN) which lost 3.93% to settle at 6.35 and Devon Energy Corporation (NYSE:DVN) which was down 3.71% to 34.49 at the close.
The top performers on the NASDAQ Composite were LiNiu Technology Group (NASDAQ:LINU) which rose 109.62% to 0.440, Yield10 Bioscience Inc (NASDAQ:YTEN) which was up 60.28% to settle at 6.331 and Protagonist Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:PTGX) which gained 43.80% to close at 11.82.
The worst performers were DragonWave Inc (NASDAQ:DRWI) which was down 23.58% to 0.8100 in late trade, Spi Energy Co Ltd (NASDAQ:SPI) which lost 17.87% to settle at 1.05 and Celsion Corp (NASDAQ:CLSN) which was down 16.40% to 2.692 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 2007 to 1219 and 39 ended unchanged; on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, 1673 fell and 849 advanced, while 98 ended unchanged on the New York Stock Exchange.
The CBOE Volatility Index, which measures the implied volatility of S&P 500 options, was up 5.20% to 10.32.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.42% or 5.31 to $1262.79 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.60% or 0.30 to hit $49.50 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 1.04% or 0.55 to trade at $52.09 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.23% to 1.1192, while USD/JPY fell 0.43% to 110.78.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.14% at 97.19.