The US stock exchange Nasdaq closes the session lower at -1.78%
At market close, the flagship index of the US technology exchange is down -1.78% to 11855.83 points.
The trading session was not very active with a trading volume of 135.31 billion dollars. 998.96 million shares changed hands. 10 stocks finished in the green and 90 were down.
The best performance of the day was attributed to Seagen with 13.28% to 160.91 dollars. In second place on the podium, Cisco Systems closed the session at 50.99 dollars, up 5.24%, followed by JD.com at 54.1 dollars (3.58%).
At the bottom of the pack is Datadog. The share ends the trading session down -7.04% to 82.47 dollars. Atlassian and Advanced Micro Devices are also lagging behind.
Several stocks (Airbnb, Amgen, Applied Materials, Biogen, Cadence Design Systems, Cisco Systems, Constellation Energy, Datadog, DocuSign, Keurig Dr Pepper, Seagen et Synopsys) recorded large trading volumes, one-third higher than their daily average.