shares of apple inc aapl rose 341 to 16556 thursday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the nasdaq composite index comp rising 199 to 1216627 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 114 to 3402969 the stocks rise snapped a threeday losing streak apple inc closed 1059 below its 52week high 17615 which the company reached on august 17th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as microsoft corp msft rose 224 to 28984 alphabet inc cl c goog rose 282 to 10819 and alphabet inc cl a googl rose 267 to 10743 trading volume 671 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 648 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