shares of united parcel service inc cl b ups inched 009 higher to 18701 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 099 to 399895 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 051 to 3203690 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains united parcel service inc cl b closed 4671 below its 52week high 23372 which the company reached on february 1st the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as fedex corp fdx remained unchanged deutsche post ag adr dpsgy rose 147 to 3931 and expeditors international of washington inc expd fell 076 to 10146 trading volume 23 m remained 10 million below its 50day average volume of 33 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