The Nasdaq Index closes the session lower at -1.73%

At market close, the flagship index of the US technology exchange is down -1.73% to 10342.94 points.

The trading session was not very active with a trading volume of 117.18 billion dollars. 1,134.36 million shares were traded. 34 stocks finished in the green and 66 were down.

The best performance of the day was attributed to Pinduoduo with 6.27% to 56.97 dollars. In second place on the podium, Booking Holdings closed the session at 1825.73 dollars, up 2.67%, followed by Advanced Micro Devices at 60.11 dollars (2.52%).

At the bottom of the pack is Cognizant Technology Solutions. The share ends the trading session down -13.77% to 51.96 dollars. Fortinet and QUALCOMM are also lagging behind.

Several stocks (Airbnb, Alphabet, Amazon, ANSYS, Atlassian, Autodesk, Booking Holdings, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Crowdstrike, Datadog, eBay, Exelon, Fiserv, Fortinet, Honeywell International, IDEXX Laboratories, Intuit, Keurig Dr Pepper, Marriott International, Marvell Technology, Moderna, Palo Alto Networks, PayPal Holdings et QUALCOMM) recorded large trading volumes, one-third higher than their daily average.