Shares of Apple Inc.
AAPL,
inched 0.08% higher to $143.86 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around poor trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index
COMP,
falling 0.85% to 10,680.51 and Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
falling 0.33% to 30,423.81. This was the stock’s third consecutive day of gains. Apple Inc. closed $39.08 short of its 52-week high ($182.94), which the company reached on January 4th.
The stock outperformed some of its competitors Wednesday, as Microsoft Corp.
MSFT,
fell 0.85% to $236.48, Alphabet Inc. Cl A
GOOGL,
fell 1.13% to $99.63, and International Business Machines Corp.
IBM,
fell 0.35% to $122.51. Trading volume (61.5 M) remained 23.7 million below its 50-day average volume of 85.1 M.
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