shares of unum group unm rose 103 to 2638 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 026 to 468867 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 058 to 3593105 unum group closed 560 short of its 52week high 3198 which the company reached on june 2nd the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as aflac inc afl fell 059 to 5692 principal financial group inc pfg fell 072 to 7159 and assurant inc aiz rose 029 to 16103 trading volume 25 m remained 13 million below its 50day average volume of 38 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