shares of apple inc aapl shed 044 to 16010 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the nasdaq composite index comp falling 085 to 1192934 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 011 to 3364650 this was the stocks third consecutive day of losses apple inc closed 1605 below its 52week high 17615 which the company achieved on august 17th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as microsoft