shares of marathon oil corp mro inched 088 higher to 1722 monday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 009 to 470170 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 029 to 3643222 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains marathon oil corp closed 022 short of its 52week high 1744 which the company achieved on november 4th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors monday as exxon mobil corp xom rose 108 to 6572 chevron corp cvx rose 036 to 11515 and royal dutch shell plc adr cl a rdsa rose 007 to 4579 trading volume 148 m remained 38 million below its 50day average volume of 186 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