Shares of Apple Inc.
AAPL,
advanced 2.80% to $179.45 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index
COMP,
rising 0.73% to 15,630.60 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
rising 0.60% to 35,970.99. Apple Inc. hit a new 52-week high, surpassing its previous peak of $176.75, which the company reached on December 9th.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Friday, as Microsoft Corp.
MSFT,
rose 2.83% to $342.54, Alphabet Inc. Cl A
GOOGL,
rose 0.25% to $2,960.03, and International Business Machines Corp.
IBM,
rose 0.42% to $124.09. Trading volume (112.6 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 82.3 M.
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