shares of starbucks corp sbux inched 051 higher to 11221 thursday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 083 to 439976 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 098 to 3475494 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains starbucks corp closed 1411 below its 52week high 12632 which the company achieved on july 23rd the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as