Shares of Apple Inc.
AAPL,
advanced 3.54% to $171.18 Tuesday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index
COMP,
rising 3.03% to 15,686.92 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
rising 1.40% to 35,719.43. This was the stock’s second consecutive day of gains. Apple Inc. hit a new 52-week high, surpassing its previous peak of $170.30, which the company reached on December 1st.
The stock outperformed some of its competitors Tuesday, as Microsoft Corp.
MSFT,
rose 2.68% to $334.92, Alphabet Inc. Cl A
GOOGL,
rose 2.87% to $2,945.39, and International Business Machines Corp.
IBM,
rose 1.39% to $121.58. Trading volume (120.4 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 83.2 M.
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