shares of international business machines corp ibm rallied 111 to 12704 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 224 to 435786 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 155 to 3406310 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains international business machines corp closed 1895 short of its 52week high 14599 which the company reached on june 10th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as apple inc aapl rose 290 to 15959 microsoft corp msft rose 252 to 29439 and alphabet inc cl a googl rose 316 to 266561 trading volume 42 m remained 17 million below its 50day average volume of 59 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