toward the end of trading thursday the dow traded up 025 to 3540254 while the nasdaq rose 005 to 1531638 the sp also rose gaining 013 to 453011 the us has the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the world reporting a total of 39399080 cases with around 642090 deaths india confirmed a total of at least 32857930 cases and 439520 deaths while brazil reported over 20804210 covid19 cases with 581150 deaths in total there were at least 218516630 cases of covid19 worldwide with more than 4544610 deaths according to data compiled by johns hopkins university energy shares gained 25 on thursday meanwhile top gainers in the sector included goodrich petroleum corporation nyse gdp up 16 and uranium royalty corp nasdaq uroy up 11 in trading on thursday communication services shares fell by 07 hormel foods corporation nyse hrl reported weakerthanexpected earnings for its third quarter and lowered its fullyear earnings forecast hormel foods posted quarterly adjusted earnings of 039 per share missing market estimates of 040 per share the company’s quarterly sales came in at 286 billion versus estimates of 265 billion hormel foods said it now expects fy21 earnings of 165 to 169 per share down from previous forecast of 170 to 182 per share the company however raised its sales forecast to 11 billion to 112 billion kirklands inc nasdaq kirk shares shot up 16 to 2113 after the company reported a narrowerthanexpected q2 loss shares of data storage corporation nasdaq dtst got a boost shooting 22 to 477 after the company reported a collaboration with precisely sphere 3d corp nasdaq any shares were also up gaining 40 to 928 as traders circulate a tweet from popular twitter trader will meade saying long any this is the next sprt and they have a very good management team check out these big movers of the day assembly biosciences inc nasdaq asmb shares tumbled 17 to 325 assembly biosciences decided to discontinue the development of abih2158 2158 following the observation of elevated alanine transaminase alt levels consistent with druginduced hepatotoxicity liver damage in the phase 2 trial william blair downgraded assembly biosciences from outperform to market perform shares of meten edtechx education group ltd nasdaq metx were down 57 to 03887 after the company priced its 200 million share offering at 030 per share phreesia inc nyse phr was down falling 10 to 6229 after the company reported a wider loss for the second quarter in commodity news oil traded up 19 to 6988 while gold traded down 03 to 181120 silver traded down 12 thursday to 2393 while copper rose 06 to 43040 european shares closed mostly higher today the eurozone’s stoxx 600 rose 031 the spanish ibex index fell 011 and the german dax 30 gained 01 meanwhile the london’s ftse 100 rose 02 french cac 40 rose 006 and italy’s ftse mib gained 020 producer prices in the eurozone increased 23 in july the number of people registered as unemployed in spain fell 82583 to 33 million in august the us trade deficit shrank to 70 billion in july exports from the us rose 13 to 2129 billion in july while imports slipped 02 to 2829 billion us initial jobless claims dropped to 340000 in the week ending august 28th recording its lowest level since march 2020 unit labor costs rose an annualized 13 in the second quarter while nonfarm labor productivity rose by an annualized 21 us naturalgas supplies climbed 20 billion cubic feet last week the energy information administration said check out the full economic calendar here