The QQQ, SPY And DIA All Soared Today. Here's Why.

The Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1 QQQ had another impressive day of trading Thursday, the fund seeing gains of 1.52% and finishing higher at $341.61.

U.S. indices were trading higher following strong economic data, including retail sales and jobless claims, as well as better-than-expected bank earnings.

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust SPY jumped 1.07% to finish at an all-time closing high of $415.87. The SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust DIA also had a very strong day, trading higher by 0.86% to finish at an all-time closing high of $340.44.

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

The leaders for the QQQ Thursday were predominantly from tech: NVIDIA Corporation NVDA, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. AMD and Xilinx, Inc. XLNX.

Nvidia shares were trading higher after Raymond James upgraded the stock from Outperform to Strong Buy and raised its price target from $700 to $750 per share.

Meanwhile, Baidu Inc BIDU, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc WBA and NetEase Inc NTES were among the top losers in the QQQ.

Shares of Chinese stocks, like Baidu, were trading lower amid fears of monetary policy tightening along with U.S.-China tensions.

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