shares of agilent technologies inc a inched 079 higher to 17379 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 085 to 448070 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 068 to 3481439 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains agilent technologies inc closed 578 short of its 52week high 17957 which the company achieved on september 3rd the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its