Recapping the Leaders and Laggards in stocks

Cirrus Logic is today's top mover after declining 12.67%

The leading indices are dropping — Nasdaq trades at 11,957 after losing 0.62%. S&P 500 slipping 0.32% and closing at 4,095.81.

Today's price action is taking place amid mixed market indicators – United States Crude Oil Inventories came out at 597,000, better than analyst estimates of -583,000 and improving upon the previous reading of -3.74 million.

Assets that recorded the greatest percentage change in relation to their peers are designated as "Top Movers" with the most active technology stocks listed below.

NI | +9.73%; session high: $58 session low: $57.35

NI has posted further gains as part of a 21 day trend that has already seen the stock gain $3.76. Today's session so far looks to be heading in the same direction — after ending yesterday at $52.58, the automated test equipment company went up to $58 only to drop back some of the way. It is now trading around $57.7 as it reaches the end of the trading session.

Cirrus Logic on track to close around $88.92 after losing 12.67%

Similar trend today: as the current session draws to a close, the US fab-less semiconductor supplier remains in the $87.89 – $91.69 range after closing yesterday at $101.82 and dropping by 12.67%. Currently, the Texan semiconductor supplier has a market capitalization of $4.91 billion with an average daily volume of 520,712 shares.

GDS Holdings is around $16.36 after losing 8.76%

As the current session draws to a close, the Chinese data platform is hovering around the $16.36 level after closing yesterday at $17.93 and dropping by 8.76%. GDS Holdings's market cap is currently $3.12 billion with an average daily trading volume of 1 million shares. So far this year, it has been doing worse than the Nasdaq by 38.14%.