Shares of Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. outperform the market in a strong trading day

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Shares of Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. INO,
+ 11.50%
jumped 11.50% to $ 15.37 on Wednesday in what turned out to be a general mixed trading session for the stock market with DJIA Dow Jones Industrial Average,
+ 0.29%
increasing by 0.29% to 31,613.02, and the NASDAQ COMP composite index,
-0.58%
decreasing by 0.58% to 13,965.49. Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. closed at $ 18.43 in addition to the 52-week high ($ 33.79), which the company reached on June 26.

The stock market surpassed some of its competitors on Wednesday as AbbVie Inc. ABBV,
+ 2.01%
rose 2.01% to $ 106.29, Amgen Inc. AMGN,
+ 1.19%
increased 1.19% to $ 235.61, and AstraZeneca PLC ADR AZN,
+ 1.10%
rose 1.10% to $ 51.45. Trading volume (17.2 million) overshadowed the average 50-day volume of 15.9 M.

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