shares of ansys inc anss inched 094 higher to 33685 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 074 to 447216 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 025 to 3434743 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains ansys inc closed 270 short of its 52week high 33955 which the company reached on june 16th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as microsoft corp msft rose 142 to 33720 oracle corp orcl rose 099 to 11602 and international business machines corp ibm fell 119 to 13284 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