shares of waste management inc wm advanced 312 to 17190 thursday on what proved to be an allaround mixed trading session for the stock market with the dow jones industrial average djia rising 047 to 3522518 and the sp 500 index spx falling 068 to 453487 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains waste management inc closed 408 below its 52week high 17598 which the company reached on august 18th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as ecolab inc ecl rose 025 to 18774 and republic services inc rsg rose 338 to 15452 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