Why Ford and Fastly Flew on a Quiet Stock Market Day

Dan Caplinger, The Motley Fool

January 21, 2021 at 1:09 p.m.·3 min read

Why Ford and Fastly Flew on a Quiet Stock Market Day

Thursday was a quiet day for the stock market, with most major market benchmarks giving up early gains and moving modestly lower by midday. Investors have already gotten an amazing start to 2021, sending the stock market to all-time highs yet again, and now they appear to ready to wait and see what the near future will bring. Red-hot tech stocks have been market leaders for quite a while, so it's not terribly surprising to see edge computing star Fastly (NYSE: FSLY) among the big winners in the market on Thursday.

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