shares of ansys inc anss inched 031 higher to 32431 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 004 to 437686 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 022 to 3385266 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains ansys inc closed 1524 below 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 038 to 33585 oracle corp orcl fell 111 to 11653 and international business machines corp ibm fell 044 to 13176 trading volume 389595 remained 77991 below its 50day average volume of 467586 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