shares of chevron corp cvx inched 086 higher to 16086 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 142 to 402781 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 100 to 3271760 this was the stocks fourth consecutive day of gains chevron corp closed 2882 below its 52week high 18968 which the company reached on november 14th trading volume 69 m remained 24 million below its 50day average volume of 93 m