shares of international business machines corp ibm inched 042 higher to 13943 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 075 to 410123 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 054 to 3281323 international business machines corp closed 656 short of its 52week high 14599 which the company reached on june 10th the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as apple inc aapl fell 009 to 14871 microsoft corp msft rose 020 to 27242 and alphabet inc cl a googl rose 011 to 227784 trading volume 38 m remained 12 million below its 50day average volume of 50 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