shares of dollar general corp dg advanced 102 to 16940 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 115 to 437841 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 063 to 3392674 dollar general corp closed 9219 short of its 52week high 26159 which the company reached on october 28th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as amazoncom inc amzn rose 145 to 12918 walmart inc wmt fell 036 to 15449 and costco wholesale corp cost rose 132 to 53033 trading volume 27 m remained 452176 below its 50day average volume of 31 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