shares of halliburton co hal inched 048 higher to 2287 friday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 026 to 476618 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 016 to 3633830 the stocks rise snapped a threeday losing streak halliburton co closed 388 short of its 52week high 2675 which the company reached on october 25th the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as royal dutch shell plc adr cl a rdsa remained unchanged and schlumberger ltd slb rose 044 to 2995 trading volume 42 m remained 44 million below its 50day average volume of 86 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