shares of microsoft corp msft inched 071 higher to 33011 monday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 090 to 451844 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 116 to 3547313 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains microsoft corp closed 3667 below its 52week high 36678 which the company reached on july 18th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors monday as apple inc aapl fell 173 to 17885 alphabet inc cl c goog rose 265 to 13194 and alphabet inc cl a googl rose 267 to 13153 trading volume 176 m remained 120 million below its 50day average volume of 296 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