The Nasdaq Eked Out A Win Today. Here's Why.

The Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1 QQQ finished slightly higher Wednesday, with the index seeing gains of 0.24% and closing at $331.62. 

Here are the day's winners and losers from the QQQ, according to data from Benzinga Pro.

The leaders for the Nasdaq were in large part from the major tech and e-commerce names Facebook, Inc. FB, NVIDIA Corporation NVDA and Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN.

Meanwhile, Tesla Inc TSLA, JD.Com Inc JD and Baidu Inc BIDU were among the top losers in the QQQ.

Tesla shares were trading lower Wednesday on reports the company is delaying deliveries of new Model S and Model X electric vehicles.

In terms of the other major indices, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust SPY finished slightly higher by 0.12% at $406.59. The SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust DIA finished flat at $334.37.

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