shares of amazoncom inc amzn inched 023 higher to 12578 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 047 to 438871 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 072 to 3405387 amazoncom inc closed 2079 short of its 52week high 14657 which the company achieved on august 16th the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as apple inc aapl rose 005 to 18501 microsoft corp msft fell 125 to 33805 and alphabet inc cl c goog fell 017 to 12385 trading volume 568 m remained 80 million below its 50day average volume of 648 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