shares of nordstrom inc jwn rose 374 to 1607 thursday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 094 to 419805 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 034 to 3353591 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains nordstrom inc closed 1165 below its 52week high 2772 which the company achieved on june 9th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as amazoncom inc amzn rose 229 to 11815 walmart inc wmt rose 130 to 15147 and target corp tgt fell 421 to 15418 trading volume 38 m remained 955862 below its 50day average volume of 48 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