NASDAQ 100's Update, In focus:NFLX, QGEN, SBUX, EBAY, FSLR

Published on Wednesday, 04 January 2012 13:35 Written by Gerard Lerod

New York, January 4th (TradersHuddle.com) - The NASDAQ 100 Index is higher trading at 2326.03, which represents 0.18% versus its previous close. The index is having a mixed day with slightly less than 50% of the NASDAQ 100 components trading higher.

Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) is the NASDAQ 100's top performer today with the stock trading at $76.46 representing 5.85% from its previous trading session. Shares of Netflix, the online video rental company have defined support at $67.61 and resistance at $74.58.

QIAGEN (NASDAQ:QGEN) is also among the top performers, and it is trading at $14.58 representing 2.93% from its previous close. QIAGEN, the sample and assay technologies provider has calculated support and resistance levels at $13.20 and $15.09 respectively. The other top performer of the NASDAQ 100 is Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX), which is trading at $46.37 representing 2.4% from its previous close.

The NASDAQ 100's worst performers include eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) that is trading at $30.18 or -3.72% from the previous close. Shares of eBay, the owner of paypal and operator of an auction marketplace have defined support at $29.08 and resistance at $31.04. Also among the worst performers First Solar (NASDAQ:FSLR), which is trading at $34.62 representing -3.28% from the previous trading session.

The NASDAQ 100 is underperfoming the Dow Jones but is pretty much equal with the S&P 500. The Dow Jones Industrial Index is currently trading at 12383.4, which represents -0.11% from previous close, the S&P 500 on the other hand is trading at 1274.75 that represents -0.18% from its previous close.