shares of dow inc dow rallied 259 to 5314 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 069 to 436901 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 043 to 3421212 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains dow inc closed 774 below its 52week high 6088 which the company reached on february 7th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as linde plc lin rose 311 to 37326 and air products  chemicals inc apd rose 212 to 28485 trading volume 43 m remained 363950 below its 50day average volume of 46 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