shares of abbott laboratories abt inched 045 higher to 10750 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 067 to 443926 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 093 to 3426142 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains abbott laboratories closed 819 short of its 52week high 11569 which the company reached on january 11th the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as johnson  johnson jnj fell 055 to 15863 trading volume 39 m remained 761231 below its 50day average volume of 47 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