The Nasdaq Index closes the session up moderately at 0.57%

At the end of the last transactions, the flagship index of the US technology exchange rises by 0.57% to 11960.15 points.

The trading session was not very active with a trading volume of 137.2 billion dollars. 939.5 million shares changed hands. 58 stocks finished in the green and 41 were down.

The best performance of the day was attributed to Tesla with 7.51% to 209.25 dollars. In second place on the podium, Cadence Design Systems closed the session at 199.09 dollars, up 7.21%, followed by NVIDIA at 229.71 dollars (5.43%).

At the bottom of the pack is PayPal Holdings. The share ends the trading session down -2.76% to 77.26 dollars. Gilead Sciences and Intuitive Surgical are also lagging behind.

Several stocks (Airbnb, Cadence Design Systems, Exelon, Keurig Dr Pepper, Marriott International, NVIDIA, O’Reilly Automotive et Synopsys) recorded large trading volumes, one-third higher than their daily average.