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At the close in NYSE, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 1.51%, while the S&P 500 index lost 1.83%, and the NASDAQ Composite index fell 2.60%.
The best performers of the session on the Dow Jones Industrial Average were Visa Inc Class A (NYSE:V), which rose 0.48% or 1.04 points to trade at 215.71 at the close. Meanwhile, Caterpillar Inc (NYSE:CAT) added 0.41% or 0.93 points to end at 229.87 and Chevron Corp (NYSE:CVX) was up 0.33% or 0.42 points to 129.38 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS), which fell 6.97% or 26.54 points to trade at 354.40 at the close. JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE:JPM) declined 4.19% or 6.62 points to end at 151.27 and Cisco Systems Inc (NASDAQ:CSCO) was down 2.66% or 1.63 points to 59.73.
The top performers on the S&P 500 were Activision Blizzard Inc (NASDAQ:ATVI) which rose 25.88% to 82.31, Citrix Systems Inc (NASDAQ:CTXS) which was up 5.43% to settle at 101.00 and CF Industries Holdings Inc (NYSE:CF) which gained 2.72% to close at 68.25.
The worst performers were Moderna Inc (NASDAQ:MRNA) which was down 8.85% to 186.61 in late trade, Applied Materials Inc (NASDAQ:AMAT) which lost 8.77% to settle at 152.36 and KLA-Tencor Corporation (NASDAQ:KLAC) which was down 7.20% to 412.98 at the close.
The top performers on the NASDAQ Composite were Brickell Biotech Inc (NASDAQ:BBI) which rose 58.58% to 0.3300, DatChat Inc (NASDAQ:DATS) which was up 38.75% to settle at 3.33 and NeuroMetrix Inc (NASDAQ:NURO) which gained 29.47% to close at 6.370.
The worst performers were China SXT Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:SXTC) which was down 58.77% to 0.2216 in late trade, Guardforce AI Co Ltd (NASDAQ:GFAI) which lost 29.01% to settle at 1.15 and East Stone Acquisition Corp (NASDAQ:ESSC) which was down 28.19% to 11.16 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the New York Stock Exchange by 2766 to 538 and 99 ended unchanged; on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, 3171 fell and 696 advanced, while 174 ended unchanged.
Shares in Chevron Corp (NYSE:CVX) rose to 3-years highs; rising 0.33% or 0.42 to 129.38. Shares in China SXT Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:SXTC) fell to all time lows; down 58.77% or 0.3159 to 0.2216.
The CBOE Volatility Index, which measures the implied volatility of S&P 500 options, was up 18.76% to 22.79.
Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.17% or 3.05 to $1813.45 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 3.10% or 2.58 to hit $85.88 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.14% or 0.12 to trade at $88.62 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.02% to 1.1328, while USD/JPY fell 0.00% to 114.61.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.58% at 95.710.
