{"id":77614,"date":"2024-03-12T15:44:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T20:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/u-s-stocks-higher-at-close-of-trade-dow-jones-industrial-average-up-0-61\/"},"modified":"2024-03-12T15:44:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T20:44:30","slug":"u-s-stocks-higher-at-close-of-trade-dow-jones-industrial-average-up-0-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/u-s-stocks-higher-at-close-of-trade-dow-jones-industrial-average-up-0-61\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. stocks higher at close of trade; Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.61%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"98\">\n<div id=\"imgCarousel\" class=\"imgCarousel\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"U.S. stocks higher at close of trade; Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.61%\" id=\"carouselImage\" src=\"https:\/\/i-invdn-com.investing.com\/news\/LYNXNPEB7P15O_L.jpg\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"text\">\u00a9 Reuters. U.S. stocks higher at close of trade; Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.61%<\/span><br \/>\n<i class=\"imgGrad\"><\/i>\n<\/div>\n<p>Investing.com \u2013 U.S. stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the ,  and  sectors led shares higher.<\/p>\n<p>At the close in NYSE, the  gained 0.61%, while the  index added 1.12%, and the  index climbed 1.54%.<\/p>\n<p>The best performers of the session on the  were 3M Company (NYSE:), which rose 4.99% or 4.69 points to trade at 98.74 at the close. Meanwhile, International Business Machines (NYSE:) added 3.17% or 6.07 points to end at 197.80 and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:) was up 2.66% or 10.76 points to 415.28 in late trade.<\/p>\n<p>The worst performers of the session were <span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Corporation\"><span itemprop=\"name\"> Boeing Co <\/span><\/span> (NYSE:), which fell 4.29% or 8.26 points to trade at 184.23 at the close. <span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Corporation\"><span itemprop=\"name\"> Nike <\/span><\/span> Inc (NYSE:) declined 0.91% or 0.92 points to end at 100.16 and Honeywell International Inc (NASDAQ:) was down 0.58% or 1.16 points to 199.13.<\/p>\n<p>The top performers on the S&#038;P 500 were Oracle Corporation (NYSE:) which rose 11.71% to 127.50, NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:) which was up 7.16% to settle at 919.13 and <span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Corporation\"><span itemprop=\"name\"> West Pharmaceutical Services Inc <\/span><\/span> (NYSE:) which gained 5.73% to close at 378.02.<\/p>\n<p>The worst performers were Southwest Airlines Company (NYSE:) which was down 14.89% to 28.75 in late trade, <span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Corporation\"><span itemprop=\"name\"> Enphase Energy Inc <\/span><\/span> (NASDAQ:) which lost 5.98% to settle at 121.00 and <span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Corporation\"><span itemprop=\"name\"> American Airlines Group <\/span><\/span> (NASDAQ:) which was down 4.71% to 13.96 at the close.<\/p>\n<p>The top performers on the NASDAQ Composite were ClearOne Inc (NASDAQ:) which rose 127.50% to 2.06, <span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Corporation\"><span itemprop=\"name\"> Regulus Therapeutics Inc <\/span><\/span> (NASDAQ:) which was up 71.01% to settle at 2.36 and <span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Corporation\"><span itemprop=\"name\"> Bright Green <\/span><\/span> Corp (NASDAQ:) which gained 45.72% to close at 0.30.<\/p>\n<p>The worst performers were <span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Corporation\"><span itemprop=\"name\"> Simpple <\/span><\/span> Ltd (NASDAQ:) which was down 78.13% to 1.24 in late trade, <span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Corporation\"><span itemprop=\"name\"> BYND Cannasoft Enterprises <\/span><\/span> Inc (NASDAQ:) which lost 70.50% to settle at 0.03 and Aslan Pharmaceuticals Ltd ADR (NASDAQ:) which was down 57.98% to 0.69 at the close.<\/p>\n<p>Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the New York Stock Exchange by 1571 to 1311 and 70 ended unchanged; on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, 1935 fell and 1457 advanced, while 123 ended unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>Shares in Oracle Corporation (NYSE:) rose to all time highs; up 11.71% or 13.36 to 127.50. Shares in International Business Machines (NYSE:) rose to 5-year highs; gaining 3.17% or 6.07 to 197.80. Shares in Simpple Ltd (NASDAQ:) fell to all time lows; down 78.13% or 4.43 to 1.24. Shares in Regulus Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:) rose to 52-week highs; gaining 71.01% or 0.98 to 2.36. Shares in BYND Cannasoft Enterprises Inc (NASDAQ:) fell to all time lows; falling 70.50% or 0.07 to 0.03. <\/p>\n<p>The , which measures the implied volatility of S&#038;P 500 options, was down 9.07% to 13.84.<\/p>\n<p>Gold Futures for April delivery was down 1.19% or 26.00 to $2,162.60 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 0.05% or 0.04 to hit $77.89 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 0.02% or 0.02 to trade at $82.19 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p>EUR\/USD was unchanged 0.00% to 1.09, while USD\/JPY rose 0.50% to 147.68.<\/p>\n<p>The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.06% at 102.53.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 Reuters. U.S. stocks higher at close of trade; Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.61% Investing.com \u2013 U.S. stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the , and sectors led shares higher. At the close in NYSE, the gained 0.61%, while the index added 1.12%, and the index climbed 1.54%. The best performers of the session on the were 3M Company (NYSE:), which rose 4.99% or 4.69 points to trade at 98.74 at the close. Meanwhile, International Business Machines (NYSE:) added 3.17% or 6.07 points to end at 197.80 and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:) was up 2.66% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":77615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,49,50,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}