The shares of Facebook Inc. Cl A outperform competitors on a strong trading day

Shares of Facebook Inc. Cl A FB,
+ 0.90%
rose 0.90% more to $ 271.87 on Wednesday, in what proved to be a global mixed trading session for the stock market, with the DIA Jones Industrial Average DJIA,
+ 0.20%
increasing 0.20% to 31,437.80 and the NASDAQ COMP composite index,
-0.25%
falling 0.25% to 13,972.53. This was the second consecutive day of earnings from the shares. Facebook Inc. Cl A closed at $ 32.80 below the 52-week high ($ 304.67), which the company hit on Aug. 26.

The shares showed mixed performance 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%
increased 13.20% to $ 67.77. Trading volume (14.5 M) remained 4.4 million below the 50-day average volume of 18.9 M.

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