The US stock exchange Nasdaq ends the session higher at 1.58%
At market close, the Nasdaq-100 rises by 1.58% to 11860.11 points.
The trading session was not very active with a trading volume of 132.02 billion dollars. 972.62 million shares were traded. 74 stocks finished in the green and 25 were down.
The best performance of the day was attributed to Tesla with 7.82% to 197.58 dollars. In second place on the podium, Lucid Group closed the session at 8.19 dollars, up 6.36%, followed by Datadog at 69.67 dollars (5.23%).
At the bottom of the pack is American Electric Power. The stock ends the trading day down -3.12% to 88.9 dollars. Applied Materials and Xcel Energy are also lagging behind.
Several stocks (Advanced Micro Devices, American Electric Power, Applied Materials, Cadence Design Systems, Dollar Tree, Intel, Keurig Dr Pepper, Lululemon Athletica, Mondelez International, Pinduoduo et VeriSign) recorded large trading volumes, one-third higher than their daily average.