Investing.com – U.S. equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the , and sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NYSE, the rose 0.78% to hit a new 1-month high, while the index gained 1.00%, and the index gained 1.51%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the were NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:), which rose 3.10% or 4.14 points to trade at 137.71 at the close. Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:) added 2.39% or 5.28 points to end at 225.94 and Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:) was up 2.11% or 12.95 points to 625.94 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Merck & Company Inc (NYSE:), which lost 2.76% or 2.78 points to trade at 97.92 in late trade. Travelers Companies (NYSE:) declined 1.18% or 2.85 points to end at 239.52 and Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:) shed 0.50% or 0.74 points to 147.03.
The top performers on the S&P 500 were Qorvo Inc (NASDAQ:) which rose 14.43% to 84.21, Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:) which was up 9.25% to settle at 21.49 and Schlumberger NV (NYSE:) which gained 6.06% to close at 43.58.
The worst performers were JB Hunt Transport Services Inc (NASDAQ:) which was down 7.38% to 172.45 in late trade, Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE:) which lost 4.21% to settle at 725.72 and Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:) which was down 3.51% to 1,900.54 at the close.
The top performers on the NASDAQ Composite were BTC Digital Ltd (NASDAQ:) which rose 73.53% to 8.26, Baird Medical Investment Holdings Ltd (NASDAQ:) which was up 63.28% to settle at 8.85 and Crown Electrokinetics Corp. (NASDAQ:) which gained 56.84% to close at 0.13.
The worst performers were Orangekloud Technology Inc (NASDAQ:) which was down 72.14% to 1.12 in late trade, Dogness International Corp Class A (NASDAQ:) which lost 59.07% to settle at 18.10 and Powell Max Ltd (NASDAQ:) which was down 22.87% to 0.64 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1707 to 1048 and 98 ended unchanged; on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, 1976 rose and 1299 declined, while 134 ended unchanged on the New York Stock Exchange.
The , which measures the implied volatility of S&P 500 options, was down 3.80% to 15.97.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.41% or 11.41 to $2,739.49 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.51% or 0.40 to hit $77.45 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 0.60% or 0.49 to trade at $80.80 a barrel.
EUR/USD was unchanged 0.29% to 1.03, while USD/JPY rose 0.57% to 156.20.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.38% at 109.24.
