Investing.com – U.S. equities were mixed at the close on Friday, as gains in the Consumer Services, Consumer Goods and Basic Materials sectors propelled shares higher while losses in the Financials, Healthcare and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NYSE, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.01%, while the S&P 500 index gained 0.03%, and the NASDAQ Composite index gained 0.08%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Dow Jones Industrial Average were Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS), which rose 1.06% or 1.14 points to trade at 108.41 at the close. Caterpillar Inc (NYSE:CAT) added 0.61% or 0.64 points to end at 105.66 and E I du Pont de Nemours & Co (NYSE:DD) was up 0.59% or 0.46 points to 77.85 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Home Depot Inc (NYSE:HD), which lost 1.00% or 1.56 points to trade at 154.90 in late trade. Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) declined 0.48% or 0.61 points to end at 126.92 and International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) shed 0.46% or 0.71 points to 152.49.
The top performers on the S&P 500 were Mallinckrodt (NYSE:MNK) which rose 5.56% to 43.28, Ulta Beauty Inc (NASDAQ:ULTA) which was up 3.19% to settle at 302.40 and Kansas City Southern (NYSE:KSU) which gained 3.09% to close at 95.95.
The worst performers were GGP Inc (NYSE:GGP) which was down 4.39% to 22.65 in late trade, Best Buy Co Inc (NYSE:BBY) which lost 3.72% to settle at 58.97 and Incyte Corporation (NASDAQ:INCY) which was down 2.91% to 134.38 at the close.
The top performers on the NASDAQ Composite were NII Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:NIHD) which rose 40.56% to 0.740, LiNiu Technology Group (NASDAQ:LINU) which was up 27.27% to settle at 0.210 and AEterna Zentaris Inc (NASDAQ:AEZS) which gained 22.92% to close at 1.180.
The worst performers were Spi Energy Co Ltd (NASDAQ:SPI) which was down 33.68% to 1.28 in late trade, BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:BCRX) which lost 14.26% to settle at 5.770 and Dataram Corp (NASDAQ:DRAM) which was down 13.79% to 3.5000 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1675 to 1527 and 48 ended unchanged; on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, 1318 fell and 1177 advanced, while 139 ended unchanged on the New York Stock Exchange.
The CBOE Volatility Index, which measures the implied volatility of S&P 500 options, was down 1.90% to 9.80.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.82% or 10.35 to $1266.75 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 1.82% or 0.89 to hit $49.79 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 1.36% or 0.70 to trade at $52.16 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.32% to 1.1174, while USD/JPY fell 0.47% to 111.30.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.23% at 97.36.