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Shares of Illumina Inc. /zigman2/quotes/203509482/composite ILMN +1.14% inched 0.32% higher to $384.36 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around poor trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index /zigman2/quotes/210599714/realtime SPX +0.01% falling 0.97% to 4,532.76 and Dow Jones Industrial Average /zigman2/quotes/210598065/realtime DJIA +0.03% falling 0.96% to 35,028.65. Illumina Inc. closed $171.41 short of its 52-week high ($555.77), which the company achieved on February 12th.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Wednesday, as Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. /zigman2/quotes/201150432/composite TMO +0.80% rose 0.55% to $593.37, Danaher Corp. /zigman2/quotes/210555154/composite DHR +1.00% fell 0.48% to $287.03, and Agilent Technologies Inc. /zigman2/quotes/207081878/composite A +2.23% fell 0.03% to $140.43. Trading volume (778,635) remained 262,763 below its 50-day average volume of 1.0 M.
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