shares of baker hughes co bkr inched 029 higher to 2789 friday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 130 to 420545 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 100 to 3309334 this was the stocks second consecutive day of losses baker hughes co closed 1077 short of its 52week high 3866 which the company achieved on june 8th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors friday as caterpillar inc cat rose 087 to 21180 schlumberger ltd slb fell 151 to 4448 and halliburton co hal fell 040 to 3020 trading volume 44 m remained 27 million below its 50day average volume of 71 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