shares of american express co axp rose 112 to 16543 friday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 099 to 458223 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 050 to 3545929 american express co closed 1672 below its 52week high 18215 which the company reached on february 14th the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as jpmorgan chase  co jpm rose 057 to 15691 visa inc cl a v rose 056 to 23575 and bank of america corp bac fell 016 to 3190 trading volume 29 m remained 120020 below its 50day average volume of 30 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