Shares of Apple Inc.
AAPL,
advanced 3.85% to $163.43 Monday, on what proved to be an all-around positive trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index
COMP,
rising 1.27% to 12,266.41 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
rising 0.71% to 32,381.34. This was the stock’s second consecutive day of gains. Apple Inc. closed $19.51 below its 52-week high ($182.94), which the company reached on January 4th.
The stock outperformed some of its competitors Monday, as Microsoft Corp.
MSFT,
rose 0.83% to $266.65, Alphabet Inc. Cl A
GOOGL,
rose 0.19% to $110.86, and International Business Machines Corp.
IBM,
rose 1.14% to $130.66. Trading volume (101.6 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 70.4 M.
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