Investing.com – U.S. equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the , and sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NYSE, the declined 0.55% to hit a new 1-month low, while the index declined 0.41%, and the index fell 0.74%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the were Visa Inc Class A (NYSE:), which rose 0.45% or 0.88 points to trade at 198.64 at the close. Boeing Co (NYSE:) added 0.38% or 0.57 points to end at 152.39 and Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:) was up 0.27% or 0.44 points to 163.18 in late trade.
Biggest losers included 3M Company (NYSE:), which lost 4.15% or 5.05 points to trade at 116.60 in late trade. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:) declined 2.75% or 0.86 points to end at 30.36 and Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:) shed 1.51% or 4.99 points to 326.49.
The top performers on the S&P 500 were Rollins Inc (NYSE:) which rose 6.05% to 35.78, Enphase Energy Inc (NASDAQ:) which was up 4.93% to settle at 292.82 and SolarEdge Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:) which gained 4.22% to close at 278.38.
The worst performers were Moderna Inc (NASDAQ:) which was down 6.13% to 130.08 in late trade, Church & Dwight Company Inc (NYSE:) which lost 4.69% to settle at 80.23 and 3M Company (NYSE:) which was down 4.15% to 116.60 at the close.
The top performers on the NASDAQ Composite were Shuttle Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:) which rose 91.28% to 28.50, IVERIC bio Inc (NASDAQ:) which was up 66.31% to settle at 15.70 and HyreCar Inc (NASDAQ:) which gained 58.12% to close at 1.27.
The worst performers were Creatd Inc (NASDAQ:) which was down 48.11% to 0.19 in late trade, Addentax Group Corp (NASDAQ:) which lost 39.52% to settle at 5.80 and Rigetti Computing Inc (NASDAQ:) which was down 37.09% to 2.29 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 2121 to 1009 and 117 ended unchanged; on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, 2468 fell and 1299 advanced, while 194 ended unchanged on the New York Stock Exchange.
The , which measures the implied volatility of S&P 500 options, was up 3.54% to 26.91 a new 1-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.63% or 10.85 to $1,711.75 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 0.10% or 0.09 to hit $86.78 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract fell 3.16% or 3.03 to trade at $92.71 a barrel.
EUR/USD was unchanged 0.24% to 0.99, while USD/JPY rose 1.58% to 142.80.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.66% at 110.24.