The Nasdaq Index closes the session up moderately at 0.75%
At the end of the last transactions, the Nasdaq-100 rises by 0.75% to 14346 points.
The trading session was not very active with a trading volume of 154.63 billion dollars. 800.88 million shares changed hands. 71 stocks finished in the green and 29 were down.
The best performance of the day was attributed to Netflix with 7.02% to 457.13 dollars. In second place on the podium, Sirius XM closed the session at 6.76 dollars, up 6.29%, followed by Lululemon Athletica at 344.91 dollars (3.34%).
At the bottom of the pack is American Electric Power. The share ends the trading session down -2.27% to 88.35 dollars. Electronic Arts and Xcel Energy are also lagging behind.
Several stocks (Advanced Micro Devices, Alphabet, American Electric Power, Electronic Arts, IDEXX Laboratories, Match Group, Netflix, NXP Semiconductors, Seagen, Sirius XM, Vertex Pharmaceuticals et Xilinx) recorded large trading volumes, one-third higher than their daily average.