Shares of Apple Inc.
AAPL,
rose 1.49% to $170.03 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around favorable trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index
COMP,
rising 1.67% to 12,639.27 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
rising 0.98% to 33,291.78. This was the stock’s second consecutive day of gains. Apple Inc. closed $12.91 below its 52-week high ($182.94), which the company reached on January 4th.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as Microsoft Corp.
MSFT,
rose 1.11% to $278.85, Alphabet Inc. Cl A
GOOGL,
rose 2.60% to $116.65, and International Business Machines Corp.
IBM,
rose 0.56% to $133.98. Trading volume (50.5 M) remained 22.1 million below its 50-day average volume of 72.5 M.
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