shares of ww grainger inc gww rose 297 to 49775 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 214 to 426245 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 182 to 3354434 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains ww grainger inc closed 2931 below its 52week high 52706 which the company reached on december 29th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as fastenal co fast rose 239 to 5579 watsco inc cl b wsob rose 525 to 27300 and snapon inc sna fell 104 to 20259 trading volume 298826 remained 5142 below its 50day average volume of 303968 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