Investing.com – U.S. equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Telecoms, Oil & Gas and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NYSE, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.72%, while the S&P 500 index declined 0.61%, and the NASDAQ Composite index fell 0.56%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Dow Jones Industrial Average were Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS), which rose 1.65% or 1.90 points to trade at 116.86 at the close. Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) added 0.26% or 0.12 points to end at 46.67 and McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:MCD) was up 0.12% or 0.23 points to 190.08 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Caterpillar Inc (NYSE:CAT), which lost 2.48% or 3.47 points to trade at 136.35 in late trade. Dow Inc (NYSE:DOW) declined 1.54% or 0.88 points to end at 56.27 and Boeing Co (NYSE:BA) shed 1.46% or 5.48 points to 369.04.
The top performers on the S&P 500 were Cerner Corporation (NASDAQ:CERN) which rose 10.30% to 62.97, Monster Beverage Corp (NASDAQ:MNST) which was up 3.05% to settle at 54.69 and Campbell Soup Company (NYSE:CPB) which gained 2.49% to close at 39.49.
The worst performers were Pentair PLC (NYSE:PNR) which was down 13.54% to 39.13 in late trade, Under Armour Inc A (NYSE:UAA) which lost 4.69% to settle at 20.72 and Advanced Micro Devices Inc (NASDAQ:AMD) which was down 4.52% to 27.24 at the close.
The top performers on the NASDAQ Composite were ATA Inc (NASDAQ:ATAI) which rose 107.84% to 2.120, Command Center Inc (NASDAQ:CCNI) which was up 35.71% to settle at 5.320 and Sunworks Inc (NASDAQ:SUNW) which gained 31.81% to close at 0.7500.
The worst performers were Vaxart Inc (NASDAQ:VXRT) which was down 34.23% to 0.980 in late trade, OUTLOOK THERAPEUTICS INC (NASDAQ:OTLK) which lost 34.10% to settle at 3.15 and Zosano Pharma Corp (NASDAQ:ZSAN) which was down 26.75% to 3.670 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 2202 to 783 and 110 ended unchanged; on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, 1927 fell and 695 advanced, while 87 ended unchanged on the New York Stock Exchange.
The CBOE Volatility Index, which measures the implied volatility of S&P 500 options, was up 8.42% to 14.29.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.48% or 6.25 to $1308.15 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.26% or 0.17 to hit $64.23 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.03% or 0.02 to trade at $70.76 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.03% to 1.1264, while USD/JPY rose 0.02% to 111.14.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.02% at 96.627.