shares of international business machines corp ibm inched 035 higher to 14778 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 075 to 396351 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 055 to 3378148 international business machines corp closed 268 short of its 52week high 15046 which the company achieved on november 23rd the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as microsoft corp msft rose 124 to 24740 alphabet inc cl c goog fell 126 to 9395 and alphabet inc cl a googl fell 130 to 9371 trading volume 27 m remained 21 million below its 50day average volume of 48 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