shares of norfolk southern corp nsc inched 097 higher to 23741 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 024 to 456572 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 031 to 3506121 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains norfolk southern corp closed 2681 short of its 52week high 26422 which the company achieved on august 26th the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as union pacific corp unp rose 077 to 21425 trading volume 804021 remained 405710 below its 50day average volume of 12 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