shares of hartford financial services group inc hig inched 098 higher to 7797 friday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 105 to 397004 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 102 to 3281692 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains hartford financial services group inc closed 147 short of its 52week high 7944 which the company achieved on january 6th the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as blackrock inc blk fell 122 to 68343 t rowe price group inc trow fell 222 to 11016 and american international group inc aig fell 023 to 6017 trading volume 12 m remained 413131 below its 50day average volume of 16 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