shares of international business machines corp ibm inched 044 higher to 13867 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 013 to 451407 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 020 to 3503107 the stocks rise snapped a twoday losing streak international business machines corp closed 1417 below its 52week high 15284 which the company achieved on june 10th the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as apple inc aapl fell 101 to 15511 microsoft corp msft rose 001 to 30021 and alphabet inc cl a googl fell 041 to 287382 trading volume 30 m remained 955759 below its 50day average volume of 39 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