shares of linde plc lin inched 071 higher to 31564 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 034 to 452003 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 076 to 3510000 linde plc closed 065 short of its 52week high 31629 which the company reached on august 30th the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as air products  chemicals inc apd fell 044 to 26710 dupont de nemours inc dd fell 092 to 7142 and dow inc dow fell 040 to 6187 trading volume 14 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 13 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