Key Takeaways Palantir shares are likely to be in the spotlight on Monday after the Nasdaq announced late Friday that the analytics software provider had been added to the Nasdaq 100 Index.The stock has continued to trend sharply higher after breaking out from a cup and handle pattern,

Barron’s wrote Friday that Palantir and MicroStrategy led the list of potential adds to the Nasdaq 100. Palantir shifted to the Nasdaq from the NYSE in November to be eligible for inclusion in the Nasdaq 100 at the reconstitution.

Palantir Technologies, MicroStrategy, and Axon Enterprises will join the Nasdaq 100 index as part of its annual reconstitution, replacing Moderna, Super Micro Computer, and Illumina. These changes had been expected because the reconstitution adds companies ...

A Nasdaq-100 index membership means mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and other financial products based on this index will have to buy shares of Palantir. This increased demand should exert at least some upward pressure on the stock price.

The Nasdaq is due to announce any changes to the Nasdaq 100 index as part of its annual reconstitution at 8 p.m. ET Friday.

Palantir, bitcoin play MicroStrategy and Axon Enterprise will join the Nasdaq 100 index. Moderna, Super Micro and Illumina will exit.

MicroStrategy Inc, the dot-com-era software maker whose metamorphosis into a leveraged bet on bitcoin has transfixed Wall Street, is joining the Nasdaq 100 Index, the benchmark’s overseer says.

MicroStrategy (NASDAQ:MSTR), and Axon Enterprise (NASDAQ:AXON) will be added to the Nasdaq-100 Index, according to the exchange operator.  To make way for those companies, Nasdaq (NDAQ) said late Friday that Illumina (NASDAQ:ILMN),