U.S. stocks lower at close of trade; Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.25% By Investing.com

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

At the close in NYSE, the declined 0.25%, while the index fell 0.30%, and the index lost 0.16%.

The best performers of the session on the were Walt Disney Company (NYSE:), which rose 0.68% or 1.06 points to trade at 155.93 at the close. Meanwhile, Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:) added 0.44% or 0.76 points to end at 172.31 and International Business Machines (NYSE:) was up 0.42% or 0.56 points to 133.91 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:), which fell 0.86% or 1.42 points to trade at 162.77 at the close. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:) declined 0.77% or 2.63 points to end at 339.32 and Nike Inc (NYSE:) was down 0.76% or 1.29 points to 167.49.

The top performers on the S&P 500 were Penn National Gaming Inc (NASDAQ:) which rose 4.54% to 51.30, Twitter Inc (NYSE:) which was up 3.98% to settle at 44.46 and ViacomCBS Inc (NASDAQ:) which gained 3.77% to close at 31.12.

The worst performers were Biogen Inc (NASDAQ:) which was down 7.09% to 240.00 in late trade, APA Corporation (NASDAQ:) which lost 3.05% to settle at 27.06 and CF Industries Holdings Inc (NYSE:) which was down 2.55% to 71.88 at the close.

The top performers on the NASDAQ Composite were Kiora Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:) which rose 93.18% to 1.700, Supercom Lt (NASDAQ:) which was up 40.10% to settle at 0.6111 and Inspira Technologies Oxy BHN Ltd (NASDAQ:) which gained 27.47% to close at 4.78.

The worst performers were Oncology Institute Inc (NASDAQ:) which was down 16.07% to 9.09 in late trade, Biofrontera Inc (NASDAQ:) which lost 13.93% to settle at 7.54 and Medavail Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:) which was down 11.69% to 1.36 at the close.

Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the New York Stock Exchange by 1806 to 1461 and 124 ended unchanged; on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, 2326 rose and 1500 declined, while 195 ended unchanged.

The , which measures the implied volatility of S&P 500 options, was up 2.24% to 17.33.

Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.54% or 9.70 to $1815.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 0.14% or 0.11 to hit $76.45 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.06% or 0.05 to trade at $79.06 a barrel.

EUR/USD was up 0.03% to 1.1326, while USD/JPY rose 0.01% to 115.07.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.05% at 95.975.