Facebook Inc. Cl A share rises Friday, outpacing the market

Shares of Facebook Inc. Cl A FB,
+ 0.60%
moved up 0.60% to $ 274.50 Friday, on what turned out to be an all-round mixed trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index COMP,
+ 0.09%
an increase of 0.09% to 13,543.06 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA,
-0.57%
decreased by 0.57% to 30,996.98. This was the share’s fifth consecutive day of profit. Facebook Inc. Cl A closed $ 30.17 below its 52-week high ($ 304.67), which the company hit on August 26.

The stock performed mixed compared to some of its competitors on Friday, such as Microsoft Corp. MSFT,
+ 0.44%
Up 0.44% to $ 225.95, Alphabet Inc. Cl A GOOGL,
+ 0.45%
rose 0.45% to $ 1,892.56, and Twitter Inc. TWTR,
+ 1.99%
increased 1.99% to $ 48.06. The trading volume (21.7 million) eclipsed the 50-day average volume of 17.3 million.

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