shares of salesforce inc crm rallied 420 to 18289 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 168 to 392056 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 106 to 3215540 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains salesforce inc closed 3927 short of its 52week high 22216 which the company achieved on march 29th the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as microsoft corp msft rose 271 to 26079