Shares of Apple Inc.
AAPL,
shed 0.09% to $148.71 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around rough trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index
COMP,
falling 0.72% to 11,994.46 and Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
falling 0.54% to 32,813.23. This was the stock’s second consecutive day of losses. Apple Inc. closed $34.23 short of its 52-week high ($182.94), which the company reached on January 4th.
The stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors Wednesday, as Microsoft Corp.
MSFT,
rose 0.20% to $272.42, Alphabet Inc. Cl A
GOOGL,
rose 0.11% to $2,277.84, and International Business Machines Corp.
IBM,
rose 0.42% to $139.43. Trading volume (74.0 M) remained 24.4 million below its 50-day average volume of 98.4 M.
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