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Shares of Corning Inc. rallied 5.7% to $154.30 on what proved to be an all-around grim trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index falling 0.4% to 7,718.60 and Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 0.5% to 53,414.25.
This was the stock's second consecutive day of gains.
Corning Inc. closed 43.2% 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 0.8% to $613.78, $Danaher Corp(DHR-W)$. fell 1.6% to $207.66, and Vistance Networks Inc. rose 0.47% to $6.40.
Trading volume totaled 7.9 million, compared to the 50-day average of 13.3 million.
Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet