Source: Sharecast
At the close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.35% at 30,068.81, the S&P 500 lost 0.79% to 3,672.82, and the Nasdaq Composite was off 1.94% at 12,338.95.
The Dow closed 105.07 points lower, putting the gains recorded a session earlier into reverse.
Optimism around Pfizer and BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine rollout across the UK drove some gains earlier in the session, while hopes that the Senate would shortly provide a stimulus package to help prop up markets amid an ever-increasing number of new coronavirus cases across the country were also in focus.
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said he wanted Congress to pass a Covid-19 relief bill with neither legal immunity for businesses nor state and local government relief, while minority leader Chuck Schumer said McConnell's proposal was not in good faith.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin later pitched a $916.0bn stimulus package to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as part of an effort to break a months-long stalemate over aid.
As far as the pandemic itself goes, the US had seen one million new cases in just four days, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, bringing the national total to more than 15 million.
On the macro front, mortgage applications in the United States went down 1.2% in the week ended 4 December, following a 0.6% drop a week earlier.
Applications to purchase a home sank 5% but were still up 22% annually, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association, while applications to refinance a home were up 1.8% week-on-week, or 89% year-on-year.
Elsewhere, wholesale inventories rose at a slightly accelerated pace in October, increasing 1.1% versus the 0.9% growth registered in September and the highest seen since January 2019.
Lastly, job openings unexpectedly rose to three-month high in October, with the number of available positions increasing to 6.65m, according to the Labor Department's Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, well ahead of the 6.3m expected by economists.
In the corporate space, Campbell Soup Company was down 2.11% after offering up some weak guidance, while Designer Brands sank 8.35% after it posted a third-quarter loss after falling short on revenue estimates.
Creative software giant Adobe was down 2.33% in regular trading and fell 0.75% after hours, ahead of the release of its fourth quarter numbers.
Dow Jones - Risers
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) $242.82 1.67%
3M Co. (MMM) $175.29 1.64%
Home Depot Inc. (HD) $265.58 1.47%
Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) $42.80 1.33%
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) $153.10 1.02%
International Business Machines Corporation (CDI) (IBM) $126.79 0.86%
Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) $44.69 0.72%
Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) $180.07 0.69%
Walt Disney Co. (DIS) $154.43 0.46%
Merck & Co. Inc. (MRK) $83.47 0.35%
Dow Jones - Fallers
Apple Inc. (AAPL) $121.78 -2.09%
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) $211.80 -1.95%
Boeing Co. (BA) $232.06 -1.91%
Pfizer Inc. (PFE) $41.85 -1.67%
Visa Inc. (V) $209.58 -1.50%
American Express Co. (AXP) $121.69 -1.48%
Raytheon Technologies Corporation (RTX) $73.54 -1.26%
Intel Corp. (INTC) $50.07 -1.22%
Chevron Corp. (CVX) $90.44 -1.20%
Procter & Gamble Co. (PG) $136.41 -1.19%
S&P 500 - Risers
Lowe's Companies Inc. (LOW) $160.13 5.88%
Eli Lilly and Company (LLY) $158.00 5.83%
General Electric Co. (GE) $11.39 3.92%
Ralph Lauren Corp (RL) $100.83 3.79%
AutoZone Inc. (AZO) $1,136.67 3.71%
Masco Corp. (MAS) $54.05 3.68%
Advance Auto Parts (AAP) $157.95 3.38%
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. (HIG) $47.57 2.97%
Weyerhaeuser Co. (WY) $31.71 2.95%
Pentair plc (PNR) $52.60 2.90%
S&P 500 - Fallers
Qorvo, Inc. (QRVO) $160.38 -5.64%
Skyworks Solutions Inc. (SWKS) $148.29 -4.81%
Fortinet Inc. (FTNT) $125.34 -4.80%
State Street Corp. (STT) $72.76 -4.06%
Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR) $16.59 -3.99%
KLA-Tencor Corp. (KLAC) $256.49 -3.91%
Carnival Corp. (CCL) $22.69 -3.73%
Netflix Inc. (NFLX) $493.60 -3.72%
Ipg Photonics Corp. (IPGP) $208.19 -3.61%
Lam Research Corp. (LRCX) $493.83 -3.48%
Nasdaq 100 - Risers
Baidu Inc. (BIDU) $151.59 4.55%
Expedia Group Inc. (EXPE) $128.84 2.03%
Vodafone Group Plc ADS (VOD) $17.87 2.00%
Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance Inc. (ULTA) $275.66 1.35%
Dollar Tree Inc (DLTR) $110.86 1.28%
PACCAR Inc. (PCAR) $87.38 1.12%
Fastenal Co. (FAST) $49.63 1.09%
NortonLifeLock Inc. (NLOK) $19.49 1.04%
Henry Schein Inc. (HSIC) $71.15 0.99%
Booking Holdings Inc. (BKNG) $2,107.11 0.98%
Nasdaq 100 - Fallers
Tesla Inc (TSLA) $604.48 -6.99%
Mercadolibre Inc. (MELI) $1,536.54 -4.91%
Skyworks Solutions Inc. (SWKS) $148.29 -4.81%
KLA-Tencor Corp. (KLAC) $256.49 -3.91%
Workday, Inc. (WDAY) $219.48 -3.81%
Netflix Inc. (NFLX) $493.60 -3.72%
Lam Research Corp. (LRCX) $493.83 -3.48%
Microchip Technology Inc. (MCHP) $139.80 -3.42%
Asml Holdings N.V. (ASML) $452.89 -3.35%
Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (BMRN) $76.16 -3.34%
