shares of dow inc dow advanced 197 to 5758 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 128 to 396961 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 080 to 3397301 this was the stocks seventh consecutive day of gains dow inc closed 1428 short of its 52week high 7186 which the company achieved on april 21st the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as linde plc lin rose 236 to 32962 and air products  chemicals inc apd rose 003 to 31277 trading volume 89 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 50 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