shares of valero energy corp vlo rallied 412 to 12140 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 048 to 417548 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 020 to 3312879 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains valero energy corp hit a new 52week high surpassing its previous peak of 11668 which the company reached on may 2nd the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as phillips 66 psx rose 181 to 9079 and marathon petroleum corp mpc rose 396 to 9265 trading volume 58 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 47 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