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At the close in NYSE, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.00%, while the S&P 500 index added 0.30%, and the NASDAQ Composite index climbed 0.73%.
The best performers of the session on the Dow Jones Industrial Average were Salesforce.com Inc (NYSE:CRM), which rose 1.94% or 5.41 points to trade at 284.41 at the close. Meanwhile, Nike Inc (NYSE:NKE) added 1.92% or 2.95 points to end at 156.30 and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) was up 1.17% or 3.43 points to 296.31 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were American Express Company (NYSE:AXP), which fell 3.54% or 6.19 points to trade at 168.72 at the close. JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE:JPM) declined 2.64% or 4.36 points to end at 161.00 and Dow Inc (NYSE:DOW) was down 1.44% or 0.83 points to 56.91.
The top performers on the S&P 500 were Advanced Micro Devices Inc (NASDAQ:AMD) which rose 3.92% to 109.16, BlackRock Inc (NYSE:BLK) which was up 3.78% to settle at 867.81 and Discovery Inc Class A (NASDAQ:DISCA) which gained 3.74% to close at 25.50.
The worst performers were Delta Air Lines Inc (NYSE:DAL) which was down 5.76% to 41.03 in late trade, Align Technology Inc (NASDAQ:ALGN) which lost 4.97% to settle at 596.22 and United Airlines Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UAL) which was down 3.60% to 47.88 at the close.
The top performers on the NASDAQ Composite were Jasper Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:JSPR) which rose 105.13% to 14.790, Waitr Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:WTRH) which was up 58.45% to settle at 1.2700 and Sono-Tek Corp (NASDAQ:SOTK) which gained 44.22% to close at 6.4900.
The worst performers were Regulus Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:RGLS) which was down 29.88% to 0.5326 in late trade, Neuroone Medical Technologies Corp (NASDAQ:NMTC) which lost 29.37% to settle at 2.910 and DatChat Inc (NASDAQ:DATS) which was down 26.07% to 11.10 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the New York Stock Exchange by 1976 to 1195 and 159 ended unchanged; on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, 2049 rose and 1549 declined, while 166 ended unchanged.
Shares in Sono-Tek Corp (NASDAQ:SOTK) rose to all time highs; up 44.22% or 1.9900 to 6.4900.
The CBOE Volatility Index, which measures the implied volatility of S&P 500 options, was down 6.10% to 18.64.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 1.97% or 34.65 to $1793.95 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 0.10% or 0.08 to hit $80.56 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 0.17% or 0.14 to trade at $83.28 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.59% to 1.1595, while USD/JPY fell 0.27% to 113.29.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.52% at 94.028.
