shares of verisign inc vrsn inched 087 higher to 17230 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround mixed trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 016 to 383139 and the dow jones industrial average djia falling 042 to 3096782 this was the stocks fourth consecutive day of gains verisign inc closed 8473 short of its 52week high 25703 which the company reached on december 30th the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as verizon communications inc vz fell 043 to 5142 att inc t fell 066 to 2117 and international business machines corp ibm fell 248 to 13762 trading volume 625911 remained 258482 below its 50day average volume of 884393 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