The US stock exchange Nasdaq closes the session higher at 1.73%
At market close, the Nasdaq-100 rises by 1.73% to 14823.43 points.
The trading session was not very active with a trading volume of 100.24 billion dollars. 562.86 million shares were traded. 90 stocks finished in the green and 10 were down.
The best performance of the day was attributed to Walgreens Boots Alliance with 7.43% to 50.77 dollars. In second place on the podium, ASML Holding closed the session at 778.29 dollars, up 4.55%, followed by Lam Research at 567.93 dollars (4.32%).
At the bottom of the pack is Pinduoduo. The stock ends the trading day down -3.64% to 94.03 dollars. Match Group and Peloton Interactive are also lagging behind.
Several stocks (Align Technology, Crowdstrike Holdings, Fastenal, Keurig Dr Pepper, Marvell Technology, Monster Beverage, Okta, PayPal, QUALCOMM, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, T-Mobile, Vertex Pharmaceuticals et Walgreens Boots Alliance) recorded large trading volumes, one-third higher than their daily average.