Facebook Inc. Cl A stock outperforms competitors on a strong trading day

Shares of Facebook Inc. Cl A FB,
+ 0.90%
moved 0.90% higher to $ 271.87 Wednesday, on what turned out to be an all-round mixed trading session for the stock market, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA,
+ 0.20%
increases 0.20% to 31,437.80 and the NASDAQ Composite Index COMP,
-0.25%
decreased by 0.25% to 13,972.53. This was the stock’s second consecutive day of earnings. Facebook Inc. Cl A closed at $ 32.80 below its 52-week high ($ 304.67), which the company reached on August 26.

The stock performed mixed on Wednesday compared to some of its competitors such as Microsoft Corp. MSFT,
-0.39%
fell 0.39% to $ 242.82, Alphabet Inc. Cl A GOOGL,
+ 0.53%
rose 0.53% to $ 2,086.48, and Twitter Inc. TWTR,
+ 13.20%
increased 13.20% to $ 67.77. The trade volume (14.5 million) remained 4.4 million below the 50-day average volume of 18.9 million.

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