The Nasdaq Index closes the session higher at 1.01%
At the end of the last transactions, the Nasdaq-100 rises by 1.01% to 11787.4 points.
The trading session was not very active with a trading volume of 133.68 billion dollars. 958.94 million shares changed hands. 67 stocks finished in the green and 33 were down.
The best performance of the day was attributed to Netflix with 9.01% to 320.37 dollars. In second place on the podium, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals closed the session at 802.16 dollars, up 6.77%, followed by NetEase at 90.1 dollars (5.79%).
At the bottom of the pack is PayPal Holdings. The share ends the trading day down -2.39% to 72.56 dollars. Dollar Tree and Marriott International are also lagging behind.
Several stocks (Copart, Intuit, Keurig Dr Pepper, Lam Research, Match Group, Micron Technology, Netflix, PayPal Holdings et Regeneron Pharmaceuticals) recorded large trading volumes, one-third higher than their daily average.