shares of cisco systems inc csco rose 173 to 4414 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 245 to 376479 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 215 to 3053025 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains cisco systems inc closed 2015 short of its 52week high 6429 which the company achieved on december 29th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as microsoft corp msft rose 246 to 25374 international business machines corp ibm rose 210 to 13785 and vmware inc vmw rose 083 to 11719 trading volume 233 m remained 19 million below its 50day average volume of 252 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