shares of american express co axp inched 092 higher to 17290 thursday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 010 to 469605 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 047 to 3623647 american express co closed 1613 below its 52week high 18903 which the company achieved on october 22nd the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as visa inc cl a v fell 011 to 21975 mastercard inc ma fell 091 to 37000 and jpmorgan chase  co jpm rose 106 to 16552 trading volume 26 m remained 12 million below its 50day average volume of 38 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