shares of valero energy corp vlo rose 116 to 12922 monday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 119 to 379734 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 134 to 3149962 this was the stocks sixth consecutive day of gains valero energy corp closed 1759 short of its 52week high 14681 which the company achieved on june 8th the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as phillips 66 psx fell 004 to 10040 and marathon petroleum corp mpc rose 007 to 11146 trading volume 46 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 39 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