shares of assurant inc aiz inched 003 higher to 15886 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 008 to 435419 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 015 to 3391984 the stocks rise snapped an eightday losing streak assurant inc closed 1336 below its 52week high 17222 which the company reached on september 9th the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as unitedhealth group inc unh fell 009 to 41234 metlife inc met fell 142 to 5847 and aflac inc afl fell 138 to 5135 trading volume 310339 remained 20100 below its 50day average volume of 330439 editors note this story was autogenerated by automated insights an automation technology provider using data from dow jones and factset see our market data terms of use