Gold Futures were up 0.61%, to trade at $1,326.95 an ounce

New York, Monday, October 31, 2016 - Stocks were mixed at the end of the day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 0.10% lower at 18,142.42, while the S&P 500 Index rose 0.01% closing at 2,126.15. The NASDAQ Composite Index was up 0.50% reaching 7,674.3 points.

Dow Jones Industrial Average

• The best performers of the session on the Dow Jones Industrial Average were McDonald`s 1.06% to trade at 116.43, Merck&Co rose 0.99% to end at 61.94 and General Electric was up 0.85% to 29.68 in late trade

• The worst performers of the session were Exxon Mobil which fell 1.53% to trade at 82.55 at the close. DuPont lost 0.94% to end at 66.70 and American Express was down 0.56 to 63.70

S&P 500

• The top performers on theS&P 500 were Royal Caribbean Cruises which rose 4.51% to 68.43, Gilead which was up 3.53% to settle at 81.78 and Southwestern Energy which gained 2.74% to close at 14.24.

• The worst performers were United Rentals which was down 4.56% to 75.57 in late trade, Tegna Inc lost at 3.84% to settle at 20.5300 and Chesapeake which dropped 3.67% to 6.560 at the close.

Nasdaq

• The top performers on the NASDAQ were Kinsale Capital which rose 5.39% to 24.05, eHealth was up 4.68% to settle at 7.83 and United Insurances Inc. which gained 4.17% to close at 14.500.

• The worst performers were GWG Holdings Inc. which fell 4.44% to 8.39, Prism Technologies which was down 3.12% to settle at 0.1550 and Ambac sank 2.33% to close at 18.45.

Commodities NYMEX

• Gold Futures were up 0.61%, to trade at $1,326.95 the ounce.

• The Silver Futures for May delivery were up 1.38% to trade at $19.543 an ounce.

• Also on the NYMEX the WTI Crude Oil for September was down 1.88% to $44.88 a barrel.

• Natural Gas on the same market for September closed at $3.059 per million British thermal units (BTU), closing 0.49%.

Forex

• EUR/USD was down 0.04% to close at 1.1147, while the USD/JPY pair was down 0.58 to close at 101.09.

• The US Dollar Index was down 0.11% to close at 95.86.

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