shares of assurant inc aiz inched 072 higher to 15747 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 092 to 471307 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 051 to 3625202 assurant inc closed 1475 short of its 52week high 17222 which the company achieved on september 9th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as unitedhealth group inc unh rose 086 to 46900 metlife inc met rose 074 to 6800 and aflac inc afl rose 049 to 6322 trading volume 672970 eclipsed its 50day average volume of 405101 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