shares of international business machines corp ibm inched 053 higher to 12818 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 112 to 414558 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 069 to 3305551 this was the stocks eighth consecutive day of gains international business machines corp closed 2503 short of its 52week high 15321 which the company reached on december 13th the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as microsoft corp msft fell 184 to 31526 alphabet inc cl c goog fell 205 to 12329 and alphabet inc cl a googl fell 199 to 12256 trading volume 46 m remained 482931 below its 50day average volume of 51 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