The US stock exchange Nasdaq closes the session up moderately at 0.82%
At market close, the flagship index of the US technology exchange rises by 0.82% to 14566.7 points.
The trading session was not very active with a trading volume of 117.11 billion dollars. 592.46 million shares were traded. 65 stocks finished in the green and 35 were down.
The best performance of the day was attributed to Marriott International with 5.32% to 155.97 dollars. In second place on the podium, Booking Holdings closed the session at 2455.87 dollars, up 3.45%, followed by Microsoft at 289.1 dollars (2.55%).
At the bottom of the pack is Moderna. The stock ends the trading day down -11.37% to 341.09 dollars. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and JD.com are also lagging behind.
Several stocks (Adobe, ASML Holding, Dollar Tree, Gilead Sciences, Incyte, Intuitive Surgical, Keurig Dr Pepper, Marriott International, Moderna, Monster Beverage, NXP Semiconductors, Paychex, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Ross Stores, Skyworks Solutions, Xcel Energy et Zoom) recorded large trading volumes, one-third higher than their daily average.