shares of hess corp hes inched 070 higher to 13311 thursday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 094 to 419805 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 034 to 3353591 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains hess corp closed 2741 short of its 52week high 16052 which the company achieved on january 26th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as exxon mobil corp xom rose 091 to 10577 and chevron corp cvx fell 012 to 15401 trading volume 11 m remained 621434 below its 50day average volume of 17 m 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