Investing.com – U.S. stocks were mixed after the close on Thursday, as gains in the , and sectors led shares higher while losses in the , and sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NYSE, the rose 0.04%, while the index fell 0.09%, and the index fell 0.12%.
The best performers of the session on the were Boeing Co (NYSE:), which rose 2.56% or 4.42 points to trade at 177.04 at the close. Meanwhile, American Express Company (NYSE:) added 1.84% or 5.30 points to end at 293.08 and International Business Machines (NYSE:) was up 1.70% or 3.75 points to 223.92 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Home Depot Inc (NYSE:), which fell 2.23% or 8.80 points to trade at 385.02 at the close. Unitedhealth Group (NYSE:) declined 2.10% or 10.47 points to end at 489.25 and Chevron Corp (NYSE:) was down 2.04% or 2.94 points to 141.14.
The top performers on the S&P 500 were Darden Restaurants Inc (NYSE:) which rose 14.74% to 183.44, Accenture plc (NYSE:) which was up 7.06% to settle at 372.16 and GE Vernova LLC (NYSE:) which gained 4.94% to close at 332.80.
The worst performers were Lamb Weston Holdings Inc (NYSE:) which was down 20.10% to 62.50 in late trade, Micron Technology Inc (NASDAQ:) which lost 16.18% to settle at 87.09 and Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:) which was down 11.37% to 396.64 at the close.
The top performers on the NASDAQ Composite were Painreform Ltd (NASDAQ:) which rose 409.59% to 11.16, Nvni Group Ltd (NASDAQ:) which was up 317.19% to settle at 2.67 and Bio Path Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:) which gained 122.72% to close at 1.49.
The worst performers were Snow Lake Resources Ltd (NASDAQ:) which was down 63.14% to 0.30 in late trade, Blue Star Foods Corp (NASDAQ:) which lost 48.21% to settle at 0.15 and Quantum Computing Inc (NASDAQ:) which was down 41.04% to 15.14 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the New York Stock Exchange by 1810 to 1020 and 55 ended unchanged; on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, 1819 fell and 1451 advanced, while 137 ended unchanged.
Shares in Darden Restaurants Inc (NYSE:) rose to all time highs; up 14.74% or 23.57 to 183.44. Shares in Blue Star Foods Corp (NASDAQ:) fell to all time lows; falling 48.21% or 0.14 to 0.15.
The , which measures the implied volatility of S&P 500 options, was down 12.78% to 24.09.
Gold Futures for February delivery was down 1.61% or 42.76 to $2,610.54 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 1.93% or 1.36 to hit $69.22 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 1.02% or 0.75 to trade at $72.64 a barrel.
EUR/USD was unchanged 0.11% to 1.04, while USD/JPY rose 1.65% to 157.35.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.36% at 108.14.
