Facebook Inc. Cl A share falls Wednesday, underperforming market

Shares of Facebook Inc. Cl A FB,
-2.83%
rose 2.83% to $ 263.31 on Wednesday, appearing to be an everyday stock market mixed trading session, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA,
+ 1.44%
by 1.44% to 30,829.40 and the NASDAQ Composite Index COMP,
-0.61%
by 0.61% to 12,740.79. Facebook Inc. Cl A closed $ 41.36 below the 52-week high ($ 304.67), which the company reached on August 26th.

The stock underperformed some of its competitors Wednesday as Microsoft Corp. MSFT,
-2.59%
it dropped 2.59% to $ 212.25, Alphabet Inc. Cl A GOOGL,
-0.99%
it fell 0.99% to $ 1,722.88, and Twitter Inc. TWTR,
-1.15%
it fell 1.15% to $ 53.26. The trading volume (24.2 million) obscured its 50-day average volume of 17.7 million.

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