Investing.com – U.S. equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the , and sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NYSE, the rose 1.08%, while the index climbed 1.63%, and the index added 2.15%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the were Cisco Systems Inc (NASDAQ:), which rose 3.74% or 2.16 points to trade at 59.93 at the close. UnitedHealth Group Incorporated (NYSE:) added 3.11% or 14.92 points to end at 494.38 and Apple Inc (NASDAQ:) was up 2.85% or 4.97 points to 179.30 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Nike Inc (NYSE:), which lost 0.91% or 1.50 points to trade at 163.90 in late trade. JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE:) declined 0.75% or 1.19 points to end at 157.94 and Chevron Corp (NYSE:) shed 0.57% or 0.66 points to 115.56.
The top performers on the S&P 500 were Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE:) which rose 10.39% to 275.28, Advanced Micro Devices Inc (NASDAQ:) which was up 8.04% to settle at 146.50 and NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:) which gained 7.49% to close at 304.59.
The worst performers were Nucor Corp (NYSE:) which was down 8.61% to 108.22 in late trade, Medtronic PLC (NYSE:) which lost 6.04% to settle at 104.94 and Newmont Goldcorp Corp (NYSE:) which was down 3.45% to 54.23 at the close.
The top performers on the NASDAQ Composite were Theseus Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:) which rose 34.12% to 12.58, CMC Materials Inc (NASDAQ:) which was up 33.93% to settle at 195.50 and Biofrontera Inc (NASDAQ:) which gained 26.36% to close at 6.95.
The worst performers were ATAI Life Sciences BV (NASDAQ:) which was down 31.94% to 6.82 in late trade, Pulmatrix Inc (NASDAQ:) which lost 31.58% to settle at 0.4851 and China Xiangtai Food Co Ltd (NASDAQ:) which was down 28.17% to 1.8100 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 2151 to 1109 and 149 ended unchanged; on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, 2462 rose and 1332 declined, while 218 ended unchanged on the New York Stock Exchange.
The , which measures the implied volatility of S&P 500 options, was down 11.88% to 19.29.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.29% or 5.10 to $1777.40 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 1.05% or 0.74 to hit $71.47 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 0.01% or 0.01 to trade at $74.31 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.10% to 1.1297, while USD/JPY rose 0.01% to 114.04.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.25% at 96.293.
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