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Shares of Moderna Inc. rallied 5.3% to $254.19 on what proved to be an all-around mixed trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index rising 1.1% to 24,579.42 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 0.5% to 51,285.73.

Moderna Inc. closed 2.6% short of its 52-week high of $261.00, which the company achieved on November 5th.

The stock outperformed some of its peers, as Johnson & Johnson rose 1.4% to $276.22, Pfizer Inc. fell 0.2% to $29.39, and Gilead Sciences Inc. fell 0.41% to $166.89.

Trading volume totaled 16.2 million, compared to the 50-day average of 17.0 million.

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet