shares of goldman sachs group inc gs inched 064 higher to 40491 friday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 072 to 468285 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 050 to 3610031 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains goldman sachs group inc closed 2125 below its 52week high 42616 which the company reached on november 2nd the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as jpmorgan chase  co jpm fell 045 to 16686 bank of america corp bac fell 122 to 4691 and citigroup inc c rose 042 to 6916 trading volume 14 m remained 11 million below its 50day average volume of 24 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