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At the close of the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow Jones rose 1.07% to hit a monthly high, the S&P 500 rose 1.63% and the NASDAQ Composite rose 2.25%.
The top performer among the components of the Dow Jones index today was Nike Inc, which gained 3.71 points (4.22%) to close at 91.72. Quotes of American Express Company rose by 5.39 points (3.81%), closing the session at 147.02. Boeing Co rose 4.60 points or 3.24% to close at 146.65.
The biggest losers were The Travelers Companies Inc, which shed 3.70 points or 2.06% to end the session at 176.09. Amgen Inc was up 1.33 points (0.51%) to close at 259.99, while UnitedHealth Group Incorporated was down 1.38 points (0.25%) to close at 540. 22.
Leading gainers among the S&P 500 index components in today's trading were Centene Corp, which rose 10.47% to 83.75, IQVIA Holdings Inc, which gained 10.17% to close at 197.83, and shares of Charles River Laboratories, which rose 9.10% to end the session at 219.12.
The losers were Brown & Brown Inc, which shed 12.65% to close at 55.10. Shares of Cadence Design Systems Inc shed 5.55% to end the session at 151.32. Quotes W. R. Berkley Corp fell in price by 4.64% to 69.20.
Leading gainers among the components of the NASDAQ Composite in today's trading were Taysha Gene Therapies Inc, which rose 97.35% to hit 2.98, Fangdd Network Group Ltd, which gained 89.64% to close at 1.26. , as well as shares of Revelation Biosciences Inc, which rose 64.60% to close the session at 0.41.
The biggest losers were Hoth Therapeutics Inc, which shed 26.37% to close at 0.24. Shares of Mana Capital Acquisition Corp lost 23.24% to end the session at 5.99. Quotes TuanChe ADR fell in price by 18.45% to 6.32.
On the New York Stock Exchange, the number of securities that rose in price (2619) exceeded the number of those that closed in the red (487), while quotations of 112 shares remained practically unchanged. On the NASDAQ stock exchange, 2989 companies rose in price, 753 fell, and 241 remained at the level of the previous close.
The CBOE Volatility Index, which is based on S&P 500 options trading, fell 4.66% to 28.46, hitting a new monthly low.
Gold futures for December delivery added 0.21%, or 3.55, to $1.00 a troy ounce. In other commodities, WTI crude futures for December delivery rose 0.39%, or 0.33, to $84.91 a barrel. Brent futures for January delivery fell 0.05%, or 0.05, to $91.16 a barrel.
Meanwhile, in the Forex market, EUR/USD rose 0.94% to hit 1.00, while USD/JPY fell 0.71% to hit 147.90.
Futures on the USD index fell 1.03% to 110.75.
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