Investing.com – U.S. equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Consumer Services and Basic Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NYSE, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.35%, while the S&P 500 index fell 0.22%, and the NASDAQ Composite index declined 0.28%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Dow Jones Industrial Average were The Travelers Companies Inc (NYSE:TRV), which rose 5.83% or 6.89 points to trade at 125.00 at the close. Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) added 1.34% or 1.68 points to end at 126.63 and Nike Inc (NYSE:NKE) was up 0.73% or 0.94 points to 129.43 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS), which lost 2.46% or 5.12 points to trade at 202.91 in late trade. Boeing Co (NYSE:BA) declined 2.02% or 3.38 points to end at 163.86 and International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) shed 1.97% or 2.31 points to 115.06.
The top performers on the S&P 500 were Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) which rose 8.39% to 50.24, Chubb Ltd (NYSE:CB) which was up 7.48% to settle at 128.22 and Kohls Corp (NYSE:KSS) which gained 6.73% to close at 22.04.
The worst performers were Netflix Inc (NASDAQ:NFLX) which was down 6.92% to 489.05 in late trade, Pioneer Natural Resources Co (NYSE:PXD) which lost 6.09% to settle at 78.44 and Alliance Data Systems Corp (NYSE:ADS) which was down 6.09% to 48.61 at the close.
The top performers on the NASDAQ Composite were Insignia Systems Inc (NASDAQ:ISIG) which rose 154.99% to 1.7500, Marin Software Inc (NASDAQ:MRIN) which was up 149.01% to settle at 3.760 and Astrotech Corp (NASDAQ:ASTC) which gained 58.58% to close at 2.680.
The worst performers were Zosano Pharma Corp (NASDAQ:ZSAN) which was down 27.74% to 0.444 in late trade, TuanChe ADR (NASDAQ:TC) which lost 23.23% to settle at 0.760 and Anchiano Therapeutics Ltd (NASDAQ:ANCN) which was down 21.62% to 1.160 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1947 to 1101 and 138 ended unchanged; on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, 1776 fell and 1087 advanced, while 100 ended unchanged on the New York Stock Exchange.
The CBOE Volatility Index, which measures the implied volatility of S&P 500 options, was down 2.38% to 28.65.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.65% or 12.40 to $1927.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 4.08% or 1.70 to hit $40.00 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to trade at $41.72 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.02% to 1.1863, while USD/JPY unchanged 0.00% to 104.56.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.45% at 92.635.