The Nasdaq Index closes the session very strongly up at 3.25%
At market close, the Nasdaq-100 rises by 3.25% to 12200.82 points.
The trading session was not very active with a trading volume of 198.9 billion dollars. 1,496.36 million shares changed hands. 73 stocks finished in the green and 27 were down.
The best performance of the day was attributed to Align Technology with 27.38% to 359.88 dollars. In second place on the podium, Meta Platforms closed the session at 188.77 dollars, up 23.28%, followed by DocuSign at 67.83 dollars (7.67%).
At the bottom of the pack is Sirius XM Holdings. The stock ends the trading session down -9.56% to 5.3 dollars. Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Pinduoduo are also lagging behind.
Several stocks (Adobe, Advanced Micro Devices, Airbnb, Align Technology, Alphabet, Amazon, Amgen, Analog Devices, ANSYS, Apple, Applied Materials, AstraZeneca, Atlassian, Autodesk, Automatic Data Processing, Baidu, Cadence Design Systems, Constellation Energy, Copart, Crowdstrike, Datadog, Dexcom, DocuSign, Dollar Tree, eBay, Electronic Arts, Exelon, Fastenal, Fiserv, Fortinet, Gilead Sciences, Honeywell International, IDEXX Laboratories, Intel, Lam Research, Lucid Group, Marvell Technology, Match Group, Meta Platforms, Microchip Technology, NXP Semiconductors, Okta, Old Dominion Freight Line, Palo Alto Networks, Paychex, PayPal Holdings, PepsiCo, QUALCOMM, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Ross Stores, Sirius XM Holdings, Skyworks Solutions, Splunk, Starbucks, Synopsys, T-Mobile US, Texas Instruments, Verisk Analytics, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Workday et Zoom Videommunications) recorded large trading volumes, one-third higher than their daily average.