At the close in NYSE, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.17%, while the S&P 500 index gained 0.87%, and the NASDAQ Composite index added 1.45%

U.S. equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Technology, Consumer Services and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.

At the close in NYSE, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.17%, while the S&P 500 index gained 0.87%, and the NASDAQ Composite index added 1.45%.

The biggest gainers of the session on the Dow Jones Industrial Average were Walmart Inc, which rose 6.54% or 9.05 points to trade at 147.44 at the close. Nike Inc added 2.22% or 2.32 points to end at 106.71 and Salesforce Inc was up 2.15% or 3.41 points to 162.07 in late trade.

Biggest losers included UnitedHealth Group Incorporated, which lost 2.09% or 10.74 points to trade at 503.01 in late trade. The Travelers Companies Inc declined 1.75% or 3.20 points to end at 179.50 and Verizon Communications Inc shed 1.59% or 0.61 points to 37.70.

The top performers on the S&P 500 were SVB Financial Group which rose 9.18% to 239.93, Ceridian HCM Holding Inc which was up 8.30% to settle at 72.68 and Match Group Inc which gained 6.66% to close at 51.92.

The worst performers were Capital One Financial Corporation which was down 7.18% to 103.56 in late trade, Albemarle Corp which lost 6.48% to settle at 295.86 and Synchrony Financial which was down 4.85% to 35.92 at the close.

The top performers on the NASDAQ Composite were Tenax Therapeutics Inc which rose 45.74% to 0.14, Qurate Retail Inc Series B which was up 37.28% to settle at 7.14 and Exagen Inc which gained 42.38% to close at 2.99.

The worst performers were Jowell Global Ltd. which was down 56.65% to 0.69 in late trade, Fast Radius Inc which lost 47.79% to settle at 0.10 and Kingstone Companies Inc which was down 45.03% to 0.91 at the close.

Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 2356 to 792 and 105 ended unchanged; on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, 2499 rose and 1319 declined, while 197 ended unchanged on the New York Stock Exchange.

The CBOE Volatility Index, which measures the implied volatility of S&P 500 options, was up 3.41% to 24.54.