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At the close of the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow Jones was up 1.12%, the S&P 500 was up 1.14% and the NASDAQ Composite was up 0.90%.
Salesforce Inc was the top performer among the components of the Dow Jones index today, up 6.35 points or 4.31% to close at 153.53. Quotes of American Express Company rose by 4.45 points (3.14%), closing the session at 145.99. JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE:JPM) rose 2.98 points or 2.57% to close at 118.84.
The losers were shares of Intel Corporation, which lost 0.55 points or 2.08% to end the session at 25.87. Johnson & Johnson was up 0.58 points (0.35%) to close at 166.01, while Nike Inc was down 0.29 points (0.32%) to end at 89. 68.
Leading gainers among the S&P 500 index components in today's trading were Carnival Corporation, which rose 11.28% to 8.09, Lockheed Martin Corporation, which gained 8.69% to close at 431.84, and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd (NYSE:NCLH), which rose 8.57% to close at 14.31.
The biggest losers were Moderna Inc, which shed 3.71% to close at 134.09. Shares of Hasbro Inc lost 2.88% to end the session at 65.76. Quotes of DexCom Inc decreased in price by 2.81% to 96.93.
Leading gainers among the components of the NASDAQ Composite in today's trading were COMSovereign Holding Corp, which rose 170.14% to hit 0.12, Akouos Inc, which gained 88.16% to close at 13.19, and shares of Helbiz Inc, which rose by 58.07%, ending the session at around 0.42.
The biggest losers were Agrify Corp, which shed 58.60% to close at 4.43. Shares of Cosmos Holdings Inc lost 47.33% and ended the session at 0.08. Quotes of Salarius Pharmaceuticals Inc decreased in price by 45.18% to 2.74.
On the New York Stock Exchange, the number of securities that rose in price (2293) exceeded the number of those that closed in the red (825), while quotes of 115 shares remained virtually unchanged. On the NASDAQ stock exchange, 2441 companies rose in price, 1295 fell, and 277 remained at the level of the previous close.
The CBOE Volatility Index, which is based on S&P 500 options trading, fell 2.77% to 30.50.
Gold futures for December delivery lost 0.43%, or 7.10, to hit $1.00 a troy ounce. In other commodities, WTI crude for December delivery fell 2.33%, or 1.97, to $82.56 a barrel. Futures for Brent crude for December delivery fell 1.43%, or 1.31, to $90.31 a barrel.
Meanwhile, in the Forex market, the EUR/USD pair remained unchanged 0.20% to 0.99, while USD/JPY edged up 0.12% to hit 149.21.
Futures on the USD index fell 0.02% to 111.88.
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