shares of verizon communications inc vz inched 011 higher to 5240 monday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 000 to 468280 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 004 to 3608745 the stocks rise snapped a twoday losing streak verizon communications inc closed 955 below its 52week high 6195 which the company reached on december 2nd the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as apple inc aapl rose 001 to 15000 alphabet inc cl a googl fell 015 to 296904 and att inc t fell 056 to 2480 trading volume 143 m remained 42 million below its 50day average volume of 185 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