he worst performers were Prism Technologies. which fall 9.95%

What Happened in the Stock Market Today
 

U.S. October 17^th: stocks were mixed after the close , with the Dow Jones Industrial Average going down 0.29% to 18,056.40, while the S&P 500 index going down 0.30% to 2,126.50 and the NASDAQ Composite index is up 0.27% to close at 7,920.7.

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 fall 1.53% to trade at 82.55 at the close. DuPont to 0.94% to end at 66.70 and American Express was down 0.56 to 63.70

S&P 500

• The top performers on the Royal Caribbean Cru. 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 was up 3.67% to 6.560 at the close.

Nasdaq

• The top performers on the NASDAQ were Donegal B which rose 8.02% to 18.450, GWG Holdings Inc was up 4.69% to settle at 8.88 and Connecture Inc which gained 2.15% to close at 1.900

• The worst performers were Prism Technologies. which fall 9.95% to 0.1801, Atlantic American which was down 9.95% to settle at 3.800 and CNinsure gained 2.23% to close at 7.91 .

Commodities NYMEX

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

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

• Also on the NYMEX the WTI crude oil for October down 1.88% to hit $44.88 a barrel.

• Natural Gas on the same market for October closed at $3.059 per million British thermal units,to close at0.49%.

Forex

• EUR/USD was down 0.04% to close at 1.1147, while USD/JPY 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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