The US stock exchange Nasdaq ends the session very strongly down at -2.84%
At market close, the Nasdaq-100 is down -2.84% to 10737.51 points.
The trading session was not very active with a trading volume of 116.89 billion dollars. 974.28 million shares changed hands. 3 stocks finished in the green and 97 were down.
The best performance of the day was attributed to Okta with 2.07% to 56.8 dollars. In second place on the podium, AstraZeneca closed the session at 54.91 dollars, up 0.4%, followed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals at 292.8 dollars (0.13%).
At the bottom of the pack is Tesla. The share ends the trading day down -6.81% to 268.21 dollars. Lucid Group and Advanced Micro Devices are also lagging behind.
Several stocks (Advanced Micro Devices, American Electric Power, Apple, Biogen, Broadcom, Cintas, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Exelon, Illumina, Meta Platforms, Micron Technology, Netflix, NXP Semiconductors, Paychex, QUALCOMM, Skyworks Solutions et Xcel Energy) recorded large trading volumes, one-third higher than their daily average.