Facebook Inc. Cl A’s shares outperform competitors on strong trading days

Shares of Facebook Inc. Cl A FB,
+ 0.90%
advanced 0.90% higher to $ 271.87 on Wednesday in what proved to be a fully mixed trading session for the stock market, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA,
+ 0.20%
increasing 0.20% to 31,437.80 and the NASDAQ Composite Index COMP,
-0.25%
falling 0.25% to 13,972.53. This was the second consecutive day of earnings for the stock. Facebook Inc. Cl A closed $ 32.80 below its 52-week high ($ 304.67), which the company reached on August 26.

The stock showed mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors on Wednesday, 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%
rose 13.20% to $ 67.77. Turnover (14.5 M) remained 4.4 million below its average 50-day volume of 18.9 M.

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