Daily Wall Street Stock Market Review

U.S. August 2^th: stocks were mixed after the close , with the Dow Jones Industrial Average going down  0.15% to 18,404.51, while the S&P 500 index going up  0.22% to 2,166.90 and the NASDAQ Composite index is up 0.03% to close at 7,592.0.

Dow Jones Industrial Average

• The best performers of the session on the Dow Jones Industrial Average were Apple 1.77% to trade at 106.05, Pfizer rose 1.35% to end at 36.59 and Wal-Mart was up 0.49% to 73.41 in late trade.
• The worst performers of the session were Exxon which fall 0.48% to trade at 86.45. at the close. The Chervron to 0.37% to end at 99.05 and Verzion was up 0.11 to 54.95

S&P 500

• The top performers on the Mallinckrodt  which rose 10.22% to 74.46, Dun which was up 8.24% to settle at 138.13 and Williams which gained 5.76% to close at 23.15.
• The worst performers were Royal which was up 67.60% to 67.59 in late trade, Frontier lost 3.54% to settle at 4.90 and Harford which was up 9.29% to 39.85 at the close.

Nasdaq

• The top performers on the NASDAQ Composite were Connecture which rose 6.05% to 2.577 Federated which was up 3.50% to settle at 21.87 and Hallmark which gained 2.67% to close at 10.76
• The worst performers were Greenlight which fall 2.23% to 20.11, Arch. which was up 0.10% to settle at 73.04 and  Unided which gained 0.2% to close at 42.00.

Commodities NYMEX

• Gold Futures was up 0.80%, to trade at $1,370.25 a troy ounce.
• The Silver futures for May delivery was up 1.21% to trade at $20.742 an ounce.
• Also on the NYMEX the WTI crude oil for August was up 1.95% to hit $40.83 a barrel.
• Natural Gas on the same market for May closed at $2.756 per million British thermal units,to close at 0.53%.

Forex

• EUR/USD was up 0.44% to close at 1.1212, while USD/JPY was down 1.11 to close at 101.28.
• The US Dollar Index was up 0.13 % to close at 95.64.

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