shares of microsoft corp msft inched 056 higher to 24180 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 010 to 382162 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 028 to 3284974 the stocks rise snapped a threeday losing streak microsoft corp closed 10250 short of its 52week high 34430 which the company reached on december 29th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as apple inc aapl fell 005 to 13230 alphabet inc cl c goog rose 054 to 8963 and alphabet inc cl a googl rose 066 to 8902 trading volume 251 m remained 62 million below its 50day average volume of 312 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