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Shares of Oracle Corp. advanced 4.2% to $143.20 on what proved to be an all-around mixed trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index remaining mostly unchanged at 7,805.45 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 0.3% to 51,670.10.
Oracle Corp. closed 55.6% short of its 52-week high of $322.54, which the company reached on October 16th.
The stock outperformed some of its peers, as Microsoft Corp. rose 0.4% to $543.45, Alphabet Inc. Cl C rose 0.2% to $349.52, and Alphabet Inc. Cl A rose 0.30% to $353.78.
Trading volume totaled 25.9 million, compared to the 50-day average of 29.2 million.
Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet