shares of dow inc dow inched 029 higher to 4799 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround mixed trading session for the stock market with the dow jones industrial average djia rising 001 to 3183911 and the sp 500 index spx falling 074 to 383060 this was the stocks fourth consecutive day of gains dow inc closed 2387 short of its 52week high 7186 which the company reached on april 21st the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as linde plc lin rose 231 to 29484 air products  chemicals inc apd rose 018 to 25202 and dupont de nemours inc dd rose 023 to 5709 trading volume 60 m remained 255489 below its 50day average volume of 63 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