shares of costco wholesale corp cost inched 099 higher to 45179 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 016 to 435946 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 026 to 3439072 the stocks rise snapped a twoday losing streak costco wholesale corp closed 1870 below its 52week high 47049 which the company reached on september 27th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as walmart inc wmt fell 004 to 14044 target corp tgt rose 103 to 23585 and dollar general corp dg rose 082 to 21697 trading volume 19 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 17 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