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Shares of Apple Inc. (NAS:AAPL) advanced 3.16% to $165.30 Tuesday, on what proved to be an all-around dismal trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index (NASDAQ:COMP) falling 1.55% to 15,537.69 and Dow Jones Industrial Average (DOW:DJIA) falling 1.86% to 34,483.72. This was the stock's second consecutive day of gains. Apple Inc. closed $0.40 short of its 52-week high ($165.70), which the company achieved on November 22nd.
The stock outperformed some of its competitors Tuesday, as Microsoft Corp. (NAS:MSFT) fell 1.79% to $330.59, Alphabet Inc. Cl A (NAS:GOOGL) fell 2.50% to $2,837.95, and International Business Machines Corp. (NYS:IBM) fell 1.18% to $117.10. Trading volume (168.5 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 74.0 M.
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