shares of vertex pharmaceuticals inc vrtx advanced 234 to 29284 friday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 192 to 386316 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 215 to 3128826 the stocks rise snapped a fourday losing streak vertex pharmaceuticals inc closed 400 below its 52week high 29684 which the company reached on july 11th the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as johnson  johnson jnj rose 145 to 17823 merck  co inc mrk rose 115 to 9496 and abbvie inc abbv rose 211 to 15362 trading volume 27 m eclipsed 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