shares of berkshire hathaway inc cl b brkb inched 032 higher to 34534 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 071 to 455498 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 106 to 3495193 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains berkshire hathaway inc cl b closed 110 short of its 52week high 34644 which the company reached on july 12th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as honeywell international inc hon fell 140 to 20525 general electric co ge fell 007 to 11106 and illinois tool works inc itw rose 131 to 25446 trading volume 26 m remained 772831 below its 50day average volume of 33 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