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Shares of Corning Inc. rose 6.0% to $168.97 on what proved to be an all-around favorable trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index rising 0.6% to 7,818.93 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 0.5% to 51,521.28.
Corning Inc. closed 37.8% below its 52-week high of $271.78, which the company reached on June 30th.
The stock outperformed some of its peers, as Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. fell 3.0% to $656.58, $Danaher Corp(DHR-W)$. fell 2.5% to $215.61, and Vistance Networks Inc. fell 0.81% to $6.15.
Trading volume totaled 8.8 million, compared to the 50-day average of 10.5 million.
Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet