Apple Inc. shares rise Friday, outperform the market


Shares of Apple Inc. AAPL,
+ 10.46%
it jumped 10.47% to $ 425.04 on Friday, in what turned out to be a positive trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index COMP,
+ 1.48%
increasing 1.49% to 10,745.27 and the DIA Jones Industrial Average DJIA,
+ 0.43%
increasing 0.44% to 26,428.32. This was the third consecutive day of stock gains. Apple Inc. hit a new 52-week high, surpassing its previous high of $ 399.82, which the company reached on July 13.

The action outperformed some of its competitors on Friday as Microsoft Corp. MSFT,
+ 0.54%
increased 0.54% to $ 205.01, Alphabet Inc. Cl A GOOGL,
-3.27%
fell 3.28% to $ 1,487.95, and International Business Machines Corp. IBM,
+ 0.03%
increased 0.03% to $ 122.94. Trading volume (92.1M) overshadowed its 50-day average volume of 33.0M.

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