shares of waste management inc wm inched 095 higher to 15062 thursday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 185 to 391832 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 166 to 3225486 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains waste management inc closed 2536 below its 52week high 17598 which the company reached on august 18th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as ecolab inc ecl fell 131 to 15765 and republic services inc rsg rose 027 to 12832 trading volume 22 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 17 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