shares of schlumberger ltd slb inched 031 higher to 5846 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 020 to 399097 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 114 to 3391085 this was the stocks ninth consecutive day of gains schlumberger ltd closed 015 below its 52week high 5861 which the company achieved on january 12th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as baker hughes co bkr fell 047 to 3148 halliburton co hal fell 030 to 4253 and nov inc nov rose 125 to 2357 trading volume 85 m remained 28 million below its 50day average volume of 112 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