shares of ww grainger inc gww inched 051 higher to 54302 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 156 to 415517 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 129 to 3281250 ww grainger inc closed 1051 short of its 52week high 55353 which the company achieved on august 1st the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as fastenal co fast rose 145 to 5182 watsco inc cl b wsob fell 001 to 24166 and snapon inc sna rose 069 to 22316 trading volume 318581 eclipsed its 50day average volume of 312726 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