shares of pfizer inc pfe rallied 187 to 4908 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 136 to 400358 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 118 to 3409810 the stocks rise snapped a twoday losing streak pfizer inc closed 1263 below its 52week high 6171 which the company achieved on december 20th the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as johnson  johnson jnj rose 048 to 17682 merck  co inc mrk rose 122 to 10690 and novartis ag adr nvs rose 105 to 8770 trading volume 164 m remained 44 million below its 50day average volume of 208 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