shares of dollar general corp dg sank 033 to 16788 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 138 to 451339 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 098 to 3528252 this was the stocks third consecutive day of losses dollar general corp closed 9371 short of its 52week high 26159 which the company reached on october 28th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as amazoncom inc amzn fell 264 to 12821 walmart inc wmt rose 007 to 15922 and costco wholesale corp cost fell 056 to 55235 trading volume 15 m remained 21 million below its 50day average volume of 36 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