[cnxvideo id=”655413″ placement=”ros”]April 20, 2017: The S&P 500 closed higher on the day, up 0.76% and 17.71 points to 2,355.87. Separately the DJIA closed up 0.86% on the day at 20,579.12, up approximately 174.63 points.
Overall Thursday was an incredible day for the markets with all of the U.S. broad markets closing higher and the Nasdaq hitting a new all-time high. In terms of the sectors, everything was positive, with the notable exception of utilities. Also cigarettes were negative on the day after Phillip Morris posted an earnings loss.
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Crude oil didn’t follow the broad markets on Thursday and was last trading down around 0.4% at $50.26 in the session.
Gold fell slightly as well down 0.10% or $0.60, closing at $1282.80.
The S&P 500 stock posting the largest daily percentage loss ahead of the close Thursday was United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE: URI) which traded down 5.2% at $113.27. The stock’s 52-week range is $56.01 to $134.28. Volume was 6.5 million versus the daily average of 1.7 million shares.
The stock posting the largest daily percentage gain in the S&P 500 ahead of the close Thursday was Alliance Data Systems Corp. (NYSE: ADS) which jumped 8.3% to $260.56. The stock’s 52-week range is $185.02 to $263.40. Volume was roughly 1.2 million which is above the daily average of around 606,000 shares.
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