At the close in the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow Jones was up 1.55%, the S&P 500 was up 2.24% and the NASDAQ Composite was up 3.77%. The leading performer among the components of the Dow Jones index today was Boeing Co, which gained 9.10 points or 5.06% to close at 188.99. Salesforce.com Inc rose 9.51 points or 4.85% to close at 205.65. Nike Inc rose 5.78 points or 4.84% to close at 125.18. The biggest losers were Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc, which shed 0.79 points or 1.64% to end the session at 47.38. Johnson & Johnson rose 1.54 points (0.87%) to close at 174.60, while Merck & Company Inc shed 0.56 points (0.71%) to close at 78.08.
Leading gainers among the S&P 500 index components in today's trading were EPAM Systems Inc, which rose 25.12% to 281.58, Moderna Inc, which gained 14.34% to close at 169.36, and shares of Las Vegas Sands Corp, which rose 11.88% to end the session at 36.54. The biggest losers were NortonLifeLock Inc, which shed 13.28% to close at 26.11. Shares of CF Industries Holdings Inc shed 7.15% to end the session at 88.08. Quotes Lockheed Martin Corporation fell in price by 6.10% to 421.32. The leading gainers among the components of the NASDAQ Composite in today's trading were Sonnet Biotherapeutics Holdings Inc, which rose 86.73% to hit 0.51, VNET Group Inc DRC, which gained 83.25% to close at 7.00. , as well as shares of Kingsoft Cloud Holdings Ltd, which rose 72.27% to close the session at 5.53.
The drop leaders were shares of Tantech Holdings Ltd, which fell 68.84% to close at 0.50. Shares of Incannex Healthcare Ltd ADR lost 59.41% to end the session at 13.80. Quotes of Blue Water Vaccines Inc decreased in price by 38.14% to 42.00. On the New York Stock Exchange, the number of securities that rose in price (2577) exceeded the number of those that closed in the red (637), while quotations of 101 shares remained virtually unchanged. On the NASDAQ stock exchange, 3,132 companies rose in price, 719 fell, and 142 remained at the level of the previous close. Shares in Tantech Holdings Ltd tumbled to a historic low, shedding 68.84% or 1.10 points to close at 0.50.
The CBOE Volatility Index, which is based on S&P 500 options trading, fell 10.59% to 26.67. Gold futures for April delivery lost 0.18%, or 3.55, to hit $1.00 a troy ounce. In other commodities, WTI crude for April delivery fell 1.72%, or 1.66, to $94.78 a barrel. Futures for Brent oil for May delivery fell 2.32%, or 2.32, to $97.59 a barrel. Meanwhile, in the Forex market, EUR/USD rose 0.76% to hit 1.10, while USD/JPY edged up 0.39% to hit 118.75. Futures on the USD index fell 0.71% to 98.36.
