Shares of Apple Inc.
AAPL,
inched 0.82% higher to $170.21 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around grim trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index
COMP,
falling 1.32% to 13,922.60 and Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
falling 1.29% to 34,358.50. This was the stock’s seventh consecutive day of gains. Apple Inc. closed $12.73 below its 52-week high ($182.94), which the company reached on January 4th.
The stock outperformed some of its competitors Wednesday, as Microsoft Corp.
MSFT,
fell 1.50% to $299.49, Alphabet Inc. Cl A
GOOGL,
fell 1.14% to $2,765.51, and International Business Machines Corp.
IBM,
fell 0.59% to $128.30. Trading volume (97.1 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 95.6 M.
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