shares of ppg industries inc ppg inched 053 higher to 11060 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 245 to 376479 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 215 to 3053025 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains ppg industries inc closed 6672 below its 52week high 17732 which the company reached on january 5th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as sherwinwilliams co shw fell 118 to 22015 basf se adr basfy rose 142 to 1212 and owens corning oc fell 051 to 7558 trading volume 13 m remained 261793 below its 50day average volume of 15 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