At the close of the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow Jones fell 0.75% to hit a 52-week low, the S&P 500 fell 0.58% and the NASDAQ Composite index shed 0.26%.
UnitedHealth Group Incorporated was the top performer in the Dow Jones Index today, up 7.17 points or 1.52% to close at 478.55. Boeing Co rose 1.62 points (1.29%) to close at 127.14. Home Depot Inc rose 0.90% or 2.58 points to close at 287.76.
The losers were shares of Cisco Systems Inc, which lost 6.64 points or 13.73% to end the session at 41.72. The Travelers Companies Inc was up 2.88% or 5.02 points to close at 169.30 while Walmart Inc was down 2.74% or 3.36 points to close at 119. .07.
Leading gainers among the S&P 500 index components in today's trading were Synopsys Inc, which rose 10.25% to 300.52, MarketAxess Holdings Inc, which gained 7.10% to close at 267.94, and shares of General Holdings Inc, which rose 6.62% to end the session at 223.69.
The biggest losers were Under Armor Inc C, which shed 15.76% to close at 8.18.
Leading gainers among the components of the NASDAQ Composite in today's trading were NeuroMetrix Inc, which rose 76.28% to hit 5.50, VivoPower International PLC, which gained 47.64% to close at 1.58, and shares of Neuroone Medical Technologies Corp, which rose 29.57% to end the session at 0.79.
The biggest losers were Bright Green Corp, which shed 67.35% to close at 15.70. Shares of Visionary Education Technology Holdings Group Inc lost 39.00% and ended the session at 3.05. Quotes of Molecular Data Inc decreased in price by 27.50% to 0.10.
On the New York Stock Exchange, the number of securities that rose in price (1645) exceeded the number of those that closed in the red (1538), while quotes of 108 shares remained virtually unchanged. On the NASDAQ stock exchange, 2069 companies rose in price, 1679 fell, and 235 remained at the level of the previous close.
The CBOE Volatility Index, which is based on S&P 500 options trading, fell 5.20% to 29.35.
Gold futures for June delivery added 1.29%, or 23.46, to hit $1.00 a troy ounce. In other commodities, WTI July futures rose 1.78%, or 1.90, to $108.94 a barrel. Brent futures for July delivery rose 1.94%, or 2.12, to $111.23 a barrel.
Meanwhile, in the Forex market, EUR/USD rose 1.14% to 1.06, while USD/JPY shed 0.35% to hit 127.78.
Futures on the USD index fell 0.93% to 102.89.
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