shares of dow inc dow inched 084 higher to 6706 monday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 057 to 415538 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 026 to 3306150 dow inc closed 480 short of its 52week high 7186 which the company achieved on april 21st the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as linde plc lin rose 043 to 31329 air products  chemicals inc apd rose 057 to 23540 and dupont de nemours inc dd fell 005 to 6590 trading volume 72 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 56 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