The US stock exchange Nasdaq ends the session higher at 1.58%
At market close, the flagship index of the US technology exchange rises by 1.58% to 14098.01 points.
The trading session was not very active with a trading volume of 186.54 billion dollars. 829 million shares were traded. 56 stocks finished in the green and 44 were down.
The best performance of the day was attributed to Amazon with 13.54% to 3152.79 dollars. In second place on the podium, Atlassian closed the session at 320.91 dollars, up 5.42%, followed by Zoom at 144.1 dollars (4.47%).
At the bottom of the pack is Kraft Heinz. The share ends the trading session down -3.04% to 34.75 dollars. Align Technology and Skyworks Solutions are also lagging behind.
Several stocks (Align Technology, Alphabet, Amazon, Analog Devices, eBay, Exelon, Facebook, Gilead Sciences, Honeywell, Kraft Heinz, Microchip Technology, PayPal, QUALCOMM, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Skyworks Solutions et Texas Instruments) recorded large trading volumes, one-third higher than their daily average.