shares of dollar general corp dg inched 009 higher to 21630 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 030 to 397015 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 071 to 3265670 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains dollar general corp closed 4591 short of its 52week high 26221 which the company achieved on april 21st the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday