shares of synchrony financial syf inched 051 higher to 3361 friday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 029 to 439895 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 055 to 3373488 synchrony financial closed 728 short of its 52week high 4089 which the company reached on november 11th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors friday as apple inc aapl fell 059 to 19068 jpmorgan chase  co jpm rose 079 to 14434 and visa inc cl a v fell 102 to 23645 trading volume 36 m remained 24 million below its 50day average volume of 60 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