The Nasdaq Index ends the session higher at 1.88%
At market close, the Nasdaq-100 rises by 1.88% to 15782.83 points.
The trading session was not very active with a trading volume of 156.33 billion dollars. 699.22 million shares changed hands. 76 stocks finished in the green and 24 were down.
The best performance of the day was attributed to Moderna with 11.8% to 368.51 dollars. In second place on the podium, Lam Research closed the session at 680.54 dollars, up 6.01%, followed by NVIDIA at 333.76 dollars (5.95%).
At the bottom of the pack is Peloton Interactive. The share ends the trading day down -4.35% to 44.39 dollars. NetEase and Dexcom are also lagging behind.
Several stocks (Adobe, Applied Materials, ASML Holding, Autodesk, Automatic Data Processing, Biogen, Costco Wholesale, Crowdstrike Holdings, Dexcom, Incyte, Intuit, Lam Research, Marriott International, Marvell Technology, MercadoLibre, Moderna, Paychex, PepsiCo, Pinduoduo, Seagen, Trip.com, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Walgreens Boots Alliance et Zoom) recorded large trading volumes, one-third higher than their daily average.