shares of verizon communications inc vz inched 061 higher to 5278 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 126 to 452512 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 080 to 3464118 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains verizon communications inc closed 707 below its 52week high 5985 which the company reached on may 10th the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as apple inc aapl fell 189 to 17506 alphabet inc cl a googl fell 167 to 281182 and att inc t fell 120 to 2389 trading volume 231 m remained 23 million below its 50day average volume of 254 m editors note this story was autogenerated by automated insights an automation technology provider using data from dow jones and factset see our market data terms of use