shares of unum group unm jumped 1457 to 3593 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 156 to 415517 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 129 to 3281250 the stocks rise snapped a twoday losing streak unum group closed 156 below its 52week high 3749 which the company reached on june 6th the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as aflac inc afl rose 046 to 5901 principal financial group inc pfg rose 281 to 6805 and assurant inc aiz fell 1018 to 15410 trading volume 33 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 19 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