The Nasdaq Index closes the session very strongly down at -2.1%
At market close, the flagship index of the US technology exchange is down -2.1% to 14185.64 points.
The trading session was not very active with a trading volume of 162.87 billion dollars. 886.76 million shares were traded. 11 stocks finished in the green and 89 were down.
The best performance of the day was attributed to Micron Technology with 3.29% to 91.02 dollars. In second place on the podium, Atlassian closed the session at 346.16 dollars, up 3.15%, followed by O’Reilly Automotive at 658.45 dollars (2.85%).
At the bottom of the pack is Seagen. The stock ends the trading session down -11.65% to 124.93 dollars. QUALCOMM and Advanced Micro Devices are also lagging behind.
Several stocks (Amgen, CDW/DE, Gilead Sciences, Incyte, Microchip Technology, Micron Technology, O’Reilly Automotive, PayPal, PepsiCo, Seagen, Sirius XM, Verisk Analytics et Xilinx) recorded large trading volumes, one-third higher than their daily average.