Shares of Apple Inc.
AAPL,
rose 2.40% to $146.35 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around positive trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index
COMP,
rising 2.28% to 11,621.35 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
rising 1.12% to 31,384.55. This was the stock’s fourth consecutive day of gains. Apple Inc. closed $36.59 short of its 52-week high ($182.94), which the company achieved on January 4th.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as Microsoft Corp.
MSFT,
rose 0.82% to $268.40, Alphabet Inc. Cl A
GOOGL,
rose 3.68% to $2,375.66, and International Business Machines Corp.
IBM,
rose 1.99% to $140.83. Trading volume (65.7 M) remained 32.5 million below its 50-day average volume of 98.2 M.
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