shares of international business machines corp ibm inched 042 higher to 12336 monday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 030 to 413628 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 014 to 3334860 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains international business machines corp closed 2985 below its 52week high 15321 which the company achieved on december 13th the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as microsoft corp msft rose 016 to 30946 alphabet inc cl c goog fell 081 to 11696 and alphabet inc cl a googl fell 085 to 11651 trading volume 29 m remained 22 million 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