shares of oracle corp orcl inched 037 higher to 8790 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 165 to 393697 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 163 to 3203011 this was the stocks fifth consecutive day of gains oracle corp closed 332 short of its 52week high 9122 which the company achieved on february 2nd the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as microsoft corp msft fell 054 to 27229 alphabet inc cl c goog fell 153 to 10422 and alphabet inc cl a googl fell 148 to 10337 trading volume 72 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 71 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