shares of general electric co ge rallied 258 to 8323 friday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 025 to 407056 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 008 to 3397808 this was the stocks sixth consecutive day of gains general electric co hit a new 52week high surpassing its previous peak of 8158 which the company reached on january 26th the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as honeywell international inc hon fell 058 to 20813 trading volume 77 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 69 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