U.S. stocks lower at close of trade; Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.81%

Investing.com – U.S. stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the , and sectors led shares lower.

At the close in NYSE, the declined 0.81%, while the index fell 0.71%, and the index lost 0.79%.

The best performers of the session on the were United Technologies Corporation (NYSE:), which rose 0.14% or 0.21 points to trade at 153.35 at the close. Meanwhile, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ:) unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 points to end at 59.08 and Boeing Co (NYSE:) was down 0.17% or 0.56 points to 332.76 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Dow Inc (NYSE:), which fell 2.47% or 1.33 points to trade at 52.42 at the close. Cisco Systems Inc (NASDAQ:) declined 1.63% or 0.79 points to end at 47.63 and Caterpillar Inc (NYSE:) was down 1.39% or 2.09 points to 148.44.

The top performers on the S&P 500 were Lamb Weston Holdings Inc (NYSE:) which rose 11.26% to 93.56, L Brands Inc (NYSE:) which was up 7.83% to settle at 18.86 and Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:) which gained 5.43% to close at 375.01.

The worst performers were Incyte Corporation (NASDAQ:) which was down 9.39% to 77.90 in late trade, HollyFrontier Corporation (NYSE:) which lost 6.25% to settle at 48.18 and Marathon Petroleum Corp (NYSE:) which was down 5.94% to 58.23 at the close.

The top performers on the NASDAQ Composite were Leap Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:) which rose 51.93% to 1.61, Guardion Health Sciences Inc (NASDAQ:) which was up 42.80% to settle at 0.3570 and Inpixon (NASDAQ:) which gained 38.30% to close at 0.4550.

The worst performers were Novan Inc (NASDAQ:) which was down 73.05% to 0.84 in late trade, Synthesis Energy Systems Inc (NASDAQ:) which lost 22.54% to settle at 8.8300 and Dragon Victory International Ltd (NASDAQ:) which was down 16.26% to 1.11 at the close.

Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the New York Stock Exchange by 1535 to 1294 and 88 ended unchanged; on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, 1711 fell and 943 advanced, while 74 ended unchanged.

Shares in Lamb Weston Holdings Inc (NYSE:) rose to all time highs; gaining 11.26% or 9.47 to 93.56. Shares in United Technologies Corporation (NYSE:) rose to all time highs; rising 0.14% or 0.21 to 153.35.

The , which measures the implied volatility of S&P 500 options, was up 12.43% to 14.02.

Gold Futures for February delivery was up 1.77% or 27.05 to $1555.15 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 3.02% or 1.85 to hit $63.03 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 3.64% or 2.41 to trade at $68.66 a barrel.

EUR/USD was down 0.07% to 1.1162, while USD/JPY fell 0.42% to 108.11.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.08% at 96.602.

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