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Apple Inc. stock rises Tuesday, outperforms market

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Terrence Horan

Shares of Apple Inc. AAPL, +0.73% inched 0.62% higher to $179.07 Tuesday, on what proved to be an all-around rough trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index COMP, +1.35% falling 0.23% to 13,678.19 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.39% falling 0.31% to 34,517.73.

This was the stock's second consecutive day of gains.

Apple Inc. closed $19.16 below its 52-week high ($198.23), which the company achieved on July 19th.

The stock outperformed some of its competitors Tuesday, as Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +1.78% fell 0.12% to $328.65, Alphabet Inc. Cl C GOOG, +2.23% fell 0.09% to $138.83, and Alphabet Inc. Cl A GOOGL, +2.12% fell 0.12% to $138.04.

Trading volume (50.5 M) remained 9.0 million below its 50-day average volume of 59.4 M.

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